etym.
Americanabbreviation
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etymological.
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etymology.
Example Sentences
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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.”
From The New Yorker
Corresponding with Woods by e-mail, I tried my hand at uncovering an etym.
From The New Yorker
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.
From Project Gutenberg
Etym., adeps, fat, and cera, wax.
From Project Gutenberg
Etym., alluo, to wash upon, or alluvio, an inundation.
From Project Gutenberg
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