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v. - Construct the history of words; Give the derivation of a word

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Usage examples (6)
  • The basis involves my ability to etymologize the term Chimaira into Etruscan terms.
  • Nonetheless, some do try even to loosely etymologize the aforementioned Philistine word in Indo-European terms with no noteworthy success.
  • Whenever it comes to European vocabulary, specialists of Indo-European languages are in there like a dirty shirt trying to etymologize it automatically through some...
  • If I were the kind of person to speculate without foundation about the origin of idioms in other words, if I felt competent to folk-etymologize with abandon I would say...
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