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Definition of Etymologies
1. etymology [n] - See also: etymology
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etymologies
Literary usage of Etymologies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Science of Mythology by Friedrich Max Müller (1897)
"Folk-etymologies. Several of these names had so completely lost their true meaning,
that artificial and altogether erroneous etymologies had to be assigned ..."
2. Plane and Solid Geometry by Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith (1895)
"TABLE OF etymologies. This table includes such of the pronunciations and ...
The pronunciations and etymologies are those of the Century Dictionary. ..."
3. Solid Geometry by Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith (1900)
"TABLE OF etymologies. THIS table includes such of the pronunciations and ...
The pronunciations and etymologies are those of the Century Dictionary. ..."
4. Reliquiæ Celticæ: Texts, Papers and Studies in Gaelic Literature and by Alexander Cameron (1894)
"These are of two kinds ; first, the etymologies in the MS. of the uncompleted
dictionary, which are contemporary with those given in the Gael, ..."
5. Shakespeare Studies, and Essay on English Dictionaries by Thomas Spencer Baynes, Lewis Campbell (1896)
"In reference to the first, to the etymologies, Dr. Latham, in describing the
course he had followed, lays down the true principle of procedure in this ..."
6. Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of by Friedrich Max Müller (1889)
"Most of the etymologies suggested by later poets and philosophers, ... Popular
etymologies too, a very rich source of modern myths and legends, ..."
7. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1891)
"ON SOME FALSE etymologies. ... in order to supplement, and in some instances to
correct, the etymologies given in my larger and concise Dictionaries. ..."
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