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Definition of Etymologize
1. Verb. Give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word). "Although he is not trained in this, his hobby is etymologizing"
2. Verb. Construct the history of words.
Category relationships: Linguistics
Generic synonyms: Construct, Reconstruct, Retrace
Derivative terms: Etymologizing, Etymology, Etymology
Definition of Etymologize
1. v. t. To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word.
2. v. t. To search into the origin of words; to deduce words from their simple roots.
Definition of Etymologize
1. Verb. (linguistics ambitransitive) to find or provide etymology for a word, to find etymon for a given word ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Etymologize
1. [v -GIZED, -GIZING, -GIZES]
Medical Definition of Etymologize
1. To give the etymology of; to trace to the root or primitive, as a word. Origin: Cf. F. Etymologiser. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etymologize
Literary usage of Etymologize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"Again, the attempt to etymologize is found in the earliest literary records.
The Indian Yajur Veda (qv) abounds in these primitive etymologies, ..."
2. The Journal of American Folk-lore by American Folklore Society (1917)
"... but not miao, in Chinese; and, even if the Chinese should etymologize the name
in the sense of "cat," the conclusion as to a cat-totem among the Miao ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"There being two appropriate Sanskrit verbs pd and md, it is possible to etymologize
the two words as patar, ' protector/ and 'matar, ' producer/ Now this ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1814)
"... be well acquainted ; but he must devote more time and attention to the study
of the ancient Greek, if he would qualify himself to etymologize in Romaic. ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Other to etymologize, and that duty de- Origins mands an attempt to go behind this.
Proposed. In fact many attempts of this sort have been made, ..."
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