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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has done his damnedest to supply the etymologies whenever he can, and they all ring true.
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His account of their arrival and his etymology for their name can not be trusted.
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It is also rather odd, in that no etymology of it is known.
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Looking at it another way it is perhaps a neat coupling of the word's etymology .
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One form of this is called folk etymology .
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One might wish to replace the obsolete name of a country or language with the modern name in every definition or etymology .
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The flesh and bones of words rose again to the salvation of their etymologies.
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The guiding principles then of etymology and precedent would not be acceptable today.