The basis involves my ability to etymologize the term Chimaira into Etruscan terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chimaira chimera] Reference

Nonetheless, some do try even to loosely etymologize the aforementioned Philistine word in Indo-European terms with no noteworthy success.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference

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 concocted Indo-European root.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference

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 that perhaps it comes from the notion that a big full skirt and big round cheese might have some topological symmetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [September 2006] Reference

Alas, the same Teutonic root almost certainly accounts for harbor, thereby putting paid to George Borrow's attempt to folk-etymologize that word to the Welsh/Gaelic aber ` riverine estuary or confluence. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference

And I'm not saying to offend you, but to question a) why do you insist to defend such erroneous claims? and b) why do you etymologize the words of a language you haven't studied?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The etymology of Latin tofus 'tufa' isn't written in stone] Reference