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The word's etymology can be traced to ...
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Many English and German words share the same etymology.
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If I asked him the meaning of a word in Persian, he would explain its Arabic etymology, giving endless examples of words sharing the same root.† (source)
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"It is a Sisyphean task," she admitted (though with an enthusiasm that prompted one to wonder if she had a complete command of the term's etymology).† (source)
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Langdon knew it was no coincidence that the word minstrel and minister shared an etymological root.† (source)
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The etymology of 'Tannit' proposed by Cross is: feminine of 'tannin,' which would mean 'the one of the serpent.'† (source)
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: cry of the water-seller on Arrakis (etymology uncertain).† (source)
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Without question this modern American dictionary is one of the most surprisingly complex and profound documents ever to be created, for it embodies unparalleled etymological detail, reflecting not only superb lexicographic scholarship, but also the dreams and speech and imaginative talents of millions of people over thousands of years—for every person who has ever spoken or written in English has had a hand in its making.... It was a long article, and the kids were bored to death.† (source)
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—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER 108 etymologists.† (source)
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The syllabus that he read on the notice-board stunned him; lectures on anatomy, lectures on pathology, lectures on physiology, lectures on pharmacy, lectures on botany and clinical medicine, and therapeutics, without counting hygiene and materia medica—all names of whose etymologies he was ignorant, and that were to him as so many doors to sanctuaries filled with magnificent darkness.† (source)
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Etymologically, the word means "no difference."† (source)
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The name stuck, and over time began to take on its own meaning among the kids in Clarkston, one separate from its etymology.† (source)
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The realm of the subconscious, the "occult" realm in the etymological sense of the word, very quickly turns out to be occult in the narrower sense as well and forms one of the sources for phenomena that emerge from it and to which we apply that same makeshift term.† (source)
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Most etymologists derive the word from the Dutch /doop/, a sauce.† (source)
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If they have sometimes recourse to learned etymologies, vanity will induce them to search at the roots of the dead languages; but erudition does not naturally furnish them with its resources.† (source)
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Neckties had been required six days a week when Langdon attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and despite the headmaster's romantic claims that the origin of the cravat went back to the silk fascalia worn by Roman orators to warm their vocal cords, Langdon knew that, etymologically, cravat actually derived from a ruthless band of "Croat" mercenaries who donned knotted neckerchiefs before they stormed into battle.† (source)
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