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etym.
Or etymol
abbreviation
etymological.
etymology.
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When Woods exposes an etym where there seems to be none in the German, he believes he is “in no way debasing or exaggerating this facet of Schmidt’s prose.”
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For example, Schmidt turns the German word “falls”—“in the case of”—into “phalls,” exposing the etym that brings “phallic” to mind.
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Corresponding with Woods by e-mail, I tried my hand at uncovering an etym.
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Established. et al., et alibi=And elsewhere; or et alii or alia=And others. etc., &c., et ceteri or cetera=And others, and so forth. et seq., sq., or sqq., et sequentes or sequentia=And the following. ety., etym.
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Etym., adeps, fat, and cera, wax.
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