Etymological Definition

ĕtə-mə-lŏjĭ-kəl
adjective
Of or according to the etymology, or to the principles of etymology.
Webster's New World
(comparable, of a word) Consistent with its etymological characteristics (in historical usage and/or the source language).
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Etymological Sentence Examples

  • The process of etymological change, as given by Steinthal, was this.

  • Payne begins, in workmanlike fashion, by recounting the etymological history of the title.

  • It is possible, though not certain, that the occurrence of the word kalu (priest) in Babylonian, which has no etymological connexion with Kaldu, may have contributed paronomastically towards the popular use of the term "Chaldaeans" for the Babylonian Magi.

  • This work in twenty-one books (KaOoXLKit 7rpocrcp5La) included also an account of the etymological part of grammar.

  • His chief studies, however, were philological; and in 1829 he published An Etymological Glossary of English Words of Foreign Derivation.

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EETETY

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LALCAL

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Words Starting With E and Ending With L

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12 Letter Words12 Letter Words Starting With E12 Letter Words Ending With L