Etymologies

More on etymologies from the feature name finder at the the 1994 Atlas of Mars and Viking Orbiter image-finder. ❋ Ray Girvan (2004)

I don't have my Greek references with me, so I'll have to defer a response on the name etymologies for a couple of days. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The word "credit," speaking of telling etymologies, comes from the Latin credere, which means "to trust." ❋ Unknown (2009)

I've been working on word etymologies in Etruscan and I'm finding that some origins of certain words are hard to determine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The goal is to highlight the relevance of recognizing that when word etymologies are reconstructed for words spoken by contemporary Ruvu speakers throughout this work, it is often the case that elements of the cultures of much earlier ancestral language communities are revealed because those words commonly represent inherited material culture, ideas, and the like that once characterized communities of long, long ago. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I also have hypothetical roots deduced by analysing word etymologies in my database, such as *Carθaza "Carthage" ascertained from the attested name Karθazie whose context lies in TLE 724, but I decided to leave this all out for now. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Yet the last and most popular of these etymologies is refuted by Ptolemy, (Arabia, p. 2, ❋ Unknown (1206)

Moreover, words such as amartia and sumphora, which have a bad sense, viewed in the light of their etymologies will be the same as sunesis and episteme and other words which have a good sense (i.e., omartein, sunienai, epesthai, sumphersthai) and much the same may be said of amathia and akolaia, for amathia may be explained as e ama theo iontos poreia, and akolasia as e akolouthia tois pragmasin. ❋ Plato (1975)

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 ❋ Various (1885)

Moreover, words such as amartia and sumphora, which have a bad sense, viewed in the light of their etymologies will be the same as sunesis and episteme and other words which have a good sense (compare omartein, sunienai, epesthai, sumpheresthai); and much the same may be said of amathia and akolasia, for amathia may be explained as e ama theo iontos poreia, and akolasia as e akolouthia tois pragmasin. ❋ 427? BC-347? BC Plato (1855)

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. ❋ John Dryden (1665)

Books on word etymologies, history and urban legends, stacked two-deep in the couple's library. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet I half Aiipefthe went no farther foi - his learning, than the index of Hebrew names and etymologies, which is printed at the end of feme Englilh bibles. ❋ Unknown (1779)

10In order for words to function as useful texts for historians, word etymologies should be reconstructed within a time-depth framework. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I'm afraid that most readers aren't similarly aware that many of the "etymologies" in a very popular Chinese-English dictionary available online as well as in print are little more than fairy tales. ❋ Unknown (2005)

With the kind of etymologies we are speaking of, it is practically useful to have the German gift of summoning a thing up from the depths of one's inward consciousness. ❋ Various (N/A)

Unfortunately, like many other clever men, he had the notion that derivations can be elaborated from one's own consciousness as well as definitions, and he included in his work so-called 'etymologies' of this sort. ❋ James Augustus Henry Murray (1876)

Etymology in action: "The [etymologist] spent hours describing the origin of the word "nice" to the students. Unfortunately no one understood what he was talking about and were all in a deep slumber after 10 minutes." "[The dean] spent weeks trying to track down the entymologist to give a lecture on the derivation of the word 'aunt.' When the entymologist finally arrived discussing the workings of one of the most interesting insects on Earth, [the dean] was promptly fired for being a fraud." ❋ Psiscott (2006)

The [etymologist] pointed out that his profession could not be [entomology] because "entomology" comes from the Ancient Greek word "entomos", meaning "cut", whereas "etymology" came from the Ancient Greek word "etú[mos]", meaning "true" ❋ Etymologynerd (2019)

[Bill Kristol] is being an etymological terrorist when he calls people who don't want to always be involved in a war "isolationists" when in fact [isolationism] is what North Korea has and non-interventionism is what [Switzerland] has. ❋ Gunguy (2016)

I [butt-fucked] my girlfriend last night and she got the cutest little Dirty Sanchez when she sucked me clean. Thus [the Dirty Sanchez] (etymological) is an artifact of another act—it just happens; [no fingers] needed. ❋ Sterling Pfeffernüsse (2011)

Well, [Bernard], that is some [Monty Pythonesque application of the principles of logic and etymology] [right there]! ❋ PetersonE1 (2017)