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Definition of Etymologizes
1. etymologize [v] - See also: etymologize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etymologizes
Literary usage of Etymologizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology by Ill.) University of Illinois (Urbana (1919)
"The foregoing lists are intended to include all of the words which EK defines or
etymologizes in his twelve glosses. It remains to discuss the bearing of ..."
2. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 by James Bruce (1804)
"Thus Moses etymologizes to our hand the words Eve, Cain, and Seth, from sentences
spoken by the persons themselves, and, evidently, in their own language. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Not only does he there set forth for the first time the elemental divisions of
Greek phonology, but he intentionally etymologizes. ..."
4. The History of Religions by Edward Washburn Hopkins (1918)
"On the other hand, I Mr. Batchelor etymologizes the word Kamui (Japanese Kami),
though it is a general word, applied to any " spirit," good or bad, ..."
5. Contributions Toward a History of Arabico-Gothic Culture by Leo Wiener (1920)
"... X.10, as a city in Edom, which Jerome etymologizes as " tabernaculum meum in
aliquo uel tabernaculi altitude," which apparently produced the mistake; ..."
6. The Polynesian Wanderings: Tracks of the Migration Deduced from an by William Churchill (1911)
"It is not only when Dr. Macdonald espies the chance to lug in his Semitic theory
that he takes unwarranted liberties. He etymologizes generalities on ..."
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