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etymology Etymology: Gk, etymos, base; L, logos, words the study of the origin and development of words. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Each entry is identified by part of speech, inflections, order of senses, examples of usage and etymologies. Other language sources for bird names are also revealed in concise entries that include the etymologies and meanings of scientific and common names. The faults of this essay--willful etymologies, an ignoring or ignorance of recent scholarship, the construction of large edifices on small or non-existent foundations (the notion that Shakespeare shared crank biological theories that he had probably never read), extreme tendentiousness--all this, plus enormous carelessness, is the norm of other chapters in this collection. |
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