Etymologies is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ETYMOLOGIES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• ETYMOLOGY, the study of the origins of words
• the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history
• the origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning
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 ETYMOLOGIES

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How to use ETYMOLOGIES in a sentence

• There is nothing more dangerously fascinating than etymologies.
• He confines himself almost wholly to European languages, but not always to the particular class of etymologies which it is his main object to trace out.
• We see words continually coming into vogue whose apparent etymologies, if all historical data of their origin were lost, would inevitably mislead.
• Yet I will do so, in order, if possible, to put a stop to such visionary etymologies.
• These ulterior and remote etymologies are perhaps too conjectural.
• Yet I half suspect he went no further for his learning, than the index of Hebrew names and etymologies, which is printed at the end of some English Bibles.
• Yet I half suspect he went no farther for his learning, than the index of Hebrew names and etymologies, which is printed at the end of some English bibles.
• These etymologies seem to me possible but not proved.
• Indian writings countenance both etymologies of the word.
• He every where tries to support his etymologies by some history of the place concerning which he treats.
• How very casual and indeterminate the references were by which this learned man was induced to form his etymologies, let the reader judge from the samples below.
• The change into conformity with our English dictionaries needs no defense, and will probably hereafter be imitated by all authors of school etymologies.
• Many of his definitions and particularly his etymologies, are remarkable.
• Many of these etymologies are doubtful, and some evidently mistaken.

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