The Sinhalese Buddhists have never yet had any conception of what Europeans imply in the etymological construction of the Latin root of this term.
All these and other explanations are offered by the learned, and are chosen by Curtius to show the uncertainty and difficulty of the etymological process as applied to names in myth.
The "some" who held this opinion relied on an etymological guess, the derivation from as "to pervade ".
With every proper name the etymological operation is by one degree more difficult than with an appellative.
As to the etymologicalderivation and original significance of the name of Indra, the greatest differences exist among philologists.
Manifestly no one can be expected to accept as matter of faith an etymological solution which is rejected by philologists.
This connection between Thoth and the ibis Mr. Le Page Renouf explains at some length as the result of an etymological confusion.
These explanations rest on the habit of twisting each detail of a divine legend into conformity with aspects of certain natural and elemental forces, or they rely on etymological conjecture.
Hahn offers a different explanation, founded on etymological conjecture and a philosophy of religion.
He falls back on queer etymological explanations of the birth of Dionysus from the thigh of Zeus.
It is needless to occupy space with the etymological guesses at the sense of the name "Dionysus".
The different mythological explanations of Beowulf-Beowa and Grendel have depended mainly upon hazardous etymological explanations of the hero's name.
One of the legends elaborately concocted in the temples out of old folk-tales and etymological puns explained the animal forms of the gods as the result of the murder of Osiris by Typhon or Set.
Quaint, which has so many meanings intermediate between its etymologicalsense of known or familiar (Lat.
This is somewhat of a new departure in etymological dictionaries.
Latimer, Latner sometimes means a worker in latten, a mixed metal of which the etymological origin is unknown.
We now spell the common noun clerk by etymological reaction, but educated people pronounce the word as it was generally written up to the eighteenth century (Chapter III).
Batchelor, the origin of which is one of the etymological problems yet unsolved, had in Old French and Mid.
But it cannot be used uncritically, for the author does not appear to have been either a linguist or a philologist, and, although he usually refrains from etymological conjecture, he occasionally ventures with disastrous results.
The simple mes, a southern form of which appears in Dumas, has given us Mees and Meese, which are thus etymological doublets of the word manse.
Their etymological origin is in any case the same as if they were nicknames.
So far as possible, the date or epoch of the first appearance of each word is noted, and the book will be found to contain much curious information for which earlier etymological dictionaries would be ransacked in vain.
It is probable that very many of the names in use before the Conquest, whether of English or Scandinavian origin, were chosen because of their etymological meaning, e.
It is useless to offer an explanation of an English word which will not also explain all the cognate forms" (Introduction to Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, 1898).
She was known at Aphidna, at Dekeleia, and at Rhamnous; and it would be only a fair freak of etymological invention to give her an island off the Attic as well as off the Lakonian coast.
The tale kept within the prescribed range of tying or untying something or other; and Leto, Artemis, and Apollon gained a fresh seat of worship through the etymological guess.
But the etymological process by which this has been brought about has been always somewhat of a puzzle, and it is upon this point that I have to suggest an explanation.
In so doing I am not so much putting forward etymological views of my own, as collecting together, so as to shape them into a comparison, the conclusions which have, in various individual cases, been arrived at by scholars such as Zeuss.
It must be allowed, however, that in an etymological point of view the term joculator is much better adapted to the jester than the minstrel.
Johnson's explanation of Morisco may be in an etymological point of view, it is at least doubtful whether it mean in this place a real or even personated Moor.
Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language.
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 etymologicaldictionary at his side.
If proselytizing could be used in the etymological sense, here assigned to it by Mr. Lyall, then, no doubt, Brahmanism would be a proselytizing or missionary religion.
The etymological meaning of the word is wider than that which it bears in actual use.
John Jamieson, Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, New Edition, revised by J.
Jamieson, Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, revised by J.
The recognition of the pagan divinity Baal, or Bel, the Sun, is discovered through innumerable etymological sources.
Philologists opposed this view in their most zealous and ablest representative, Doctor Budenz, a German by birth; he pleaded with all the enthusiasm of an etymological philologist for the eminently Ugrian character of the Magyar tongue.
Under the delusive cover of etymological recreation the dry monotony of the study soon became irksome, and I was quite pleased when this etymological pastime led me to the investigation of the-- 6.
The etymological Salto Mortales and the grammatical violence of the opposing school had rudely shaken my confidence in the entire apparatus of comparative philology.
In the following list, such words alone, with a few exceptions for the sake of etymological illustration, have been introduced.
The Etymological Rule is, when a man hunts a pun through every letter and syllable of a word: as for example, I am asked, 'What is the best word to spend an evening with?
Jamieson, Etymological Dictionary, gives Coup-the-Ladle as the name for See-saw in Aberdeen.
Toone, Etymological Dictionary, mentions this as a juvenile game played with counters.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "etymological" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
