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Etymologies in a sentence
Etymologies meaning
plural of etymology
Using Etymologies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of etymology
- In the example corpus, etymologies often appears in combinations such as: etymologies for, etymologies the, etymologies have.
Context around Etymologies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 12 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Etymologies
- In this selection, "etymologies" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, folk, greek, traditional, based, purporting and see stand out and add context to how "etymologies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include non greek etymologies have been and etymologies purporting an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "etymologies" sits close to words such as aarhus, abdu and abetted, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with etymologies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
On the other hand, Proto-Indo-European etymologies are also available. (11 words)
A number of improbable non-Greek etymologies have been suggested in scholarship. (12 words)
For a brief overview of the proposed etymologies, see Orel (2003:205). (12 words)
For a given word there may often have been many serious attempts by scholars to propose etymologies based on the best information available at the time, and these can be later modified or rejected as linguistic scholarship advances. (38 words)
Forms and etymologies The name Excalibur ultimately comes from the ancestor of Welsh Caledfwlch (and Breton Kaledvoulc'h, Middle Cornish Calesvol) which is a compound of caled main "hard" and bwlch main "breach, cleft". (34 words)
Core vocabulary The list of etymologies of lexical words reconstructed by Dolgopolsky that are considered by Bomhard to be strong is as follows: Personal pronouns Personal pronouns are seldom borrowed between languages. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
It is only one of a total of 13 etymologies for the name of Kidapawan I had gathered after two years of digging up.
According to traditional etymologies, the Sanskrit name Rudra is derived from the root rud-, which means "to cry, howl".
Acronym Other suggested folk etymologies or backronyms for kludge or kluge is from klumsy, lame, ugly, dumb, but good enough, or klutzy, lashup, under, going, engineering.
Although Illich-Svitych adopted many of Trombetti's etymologies, he sought to validate them by a systematic comparison of the sound systems of the languages concerned.
Among the data used for reconstruction are explicit statements about pronunciation by ancient authors, misspellings, puns, ancient etymologies, and the spelling of Latin loanwords in other languages.
A number of improbable non-Greek etymologies have been suggested in scholarship.
A number of non-Greek etymologies have been suggested for the name, Martin Nilsson, Die Geschichte der Griechische Religion, vol.
Core vocabulary The list of etymologies of lexical words reconstructed by Dolgopolsky that are considered by Bomhard to be strong is as follows: Personal pronouns Personal pronouns are seldom borrowed between languages.
Etymologies purporting an origin in languages of the aboriginal inhabitants of the United States are not well received by linguists.
Folk etymologies state that the word comes from the Late Latin expression carne vale, which means "farewell to meat", signifying the approaching fast.
For a brief overview of the proposed etymologies, see Orel (2003:205).
For a given word there may often have been many serious attempts by scholars to propose etymologies based on the best information available at the time, and these can be later modified or rejected as linguistic scholarship advances.
Forms and etymologies The name Excalibur ultimately comes from the ancestor of Welsh Caledfwlch (and Breton Kaledvoulc'h, Middle Cornish Calesvol) which is a compound of caled main "hard" and bwlch main "breach, cleft".
He often provides nationalities, birth dates, and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms.
His retellings are well respected; many of his unconventional interpretations and etymologies are dismissed by classicists.
However, etymologies based on comparison with Eos are unlikely since Aphrodite's attributes are entirely different from those of Eos (or the Vedic deity Ushas ).
In 2012, artists Jez Dolan and Joseph Richardson created an iPhone app which makes available the Polari lexicon and comprehensive list of etymologies.
Indeed, by the time Isidore of Seville came to write his Etymologies, the word Maurus or "Moor" had become an adjective in Latin, "for the Greeks call black, mauron".
One method for tracing their origins consists in analysis of the possible etymologies behind the ethnonym Khazar itself.
On the other hand, Proto-Indo-European etymologies are also available.
Common combinations with etymologies
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- etymologies for 4×
- etymologies the 4×
- etymologies have 4×
- of etymologies 3×
- and etymologies 3×
- folk etymologies 2×
- etymologies or 2×
- etymologies and 2×
- non-greek etymologies 2×
- proposed etymologies 2×