Etymological is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ETYMOLOGICAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• related to etymology
• relating to the origin and historical development of words and their meanings
• Pertaining to etymology, or the derivation of words.
• based on or belonging to etymology
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the history of a linguistic form (as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language

Words related to ETYMOLOGICAL

etymologically25 etymology18

Words that contain ETYMOLOGICAL

etymologically25

How to use ETYMOLOGICAL in a sentence

• Like enough! We must bow to Grimm in matters etymological.
• The system is different from the English or American, being based on the etymological nature of the language.
• Hence, in etymological parsing, it may be sufficient to notice it only as a relative, though the construction be double.
• The principle is simple and etymological, being implied in the very definition of a preposition, yet not the less necessary to be given as a rule of syntax.
• In stead of teaching sufficiently, as elements of etymological parsing, the definitions which belong to this exercise, and then dismissing them for the principles of syntax, Dr.
• Indeed at the close of his long topographical and etymological narrative Mr.
• I determined to attempt, at least for my own use, an etymological analysis of the English language.
• It is sufficient, in etymological inquiries, if the senses of kindred words be found such as may easily pass into each other, or such as may both be referred to one general idea.
• Plato does not add the further observation, that the etymological meaning of words is in process of being lost.
• The poet is full of inquiry as to origins, even etymological, as is Hesiod.
• Frazer considers the etymological connection of Zeus with the Sanscrit word for sky, an insufficient reason for regarding Zeus as, in origin, a sky-god.
• Any full investigation of grammatical or etymological details would be beyond the scope of this little volume.
• Neither progress in the languages nor knowledge of mathematics can compensate for the want of a thorough etymological discipline.
• The etymological force of the word Nirwana is extinction, as when the sun has set, a fire has burned out, or a lamp is extinguished.
• In all Greek literature the word is undoubtedly used in a careless and qualified sense at least a hundred times where it is used once with its close etymological force.
• It may be that I have a perverted literary taste, for I can get more humor, more keen enjoyment, out of a census report or an etymological dictionary than from a novel.
• It is as though one studied a primer with an etymological dictionary at his side.
• From hence the Reader will see plainly my method of analysis, and the basis of my etymological inquiries.
• We must, therefore, in all etymological inquiries, have recourse to the Doric manner of pronunciation, to obtain the truth.
• In his etymological vagaries, however, he sometimes left his age far behind.
• Learned though he was, Rabelais had little care to be so etymological, and it is not his theories but those of the modern scholar that have been ventilated.
• Even where the Chinaman feels the etymological relationship, as in certain cases he can hardly help doing, he can assign no particular function to the phonetic variation as such.
• The favourite adjective in the journalistic etymological garden was culled for the heading, and it was described as an amazing case.
• The British name of the village may afford ground for much ethnigraphical and etymological speculation.
• Into these etymological questions I have no intention to enter, since I am not qualified to do so, nor is it necessary, as they have been fully dealt with by Mr.
• Had Euripides designed an etymological quibble, he would probably have made some allusion to Merus, a mountain of India, where Bacchus is said to have been brought up.
• If we might derive from, or to inhabit, the etymological distinction would be complete on these principles.
• The etymological theory of pronunciation is intolerable.

Similar words containing ETYMOLOGIC without suffix al

etymologica19 etymologicon20 etymologicum22 etymologically25

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