He asked for the etymology twice, shifted his body back and forth and stroked his chin.
Tolkien worked on the etymology of the name Nodens and repeatedly visited the temple.
It shows definitions, pronunciation and extensive etymology definitely an asset while reading Chekhov, or Infinite Jest.
Places like Dingwall, Wick, Lerwick and Tinwald can all trace their etymology back to the same source.
The meaning of a word can be derived from its etymology or it can be assigned arbitrarily and artificially.
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Though he is a respected linguist, this seems shaky, as so much of English etymology is famously, gloriously illogical.
Give him a word, and he would burrow joyously into its etymology.
He scrutinises the etymology and translation of individual words and phrases and makes his heroes parse their own and others' thoughts, feelings, motives and memories.
The word's English etymology speaks volumes about Anglo-Saxon disdain for organs.
Anything from conjugations and etymology to punctuation and dialects.
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The chief librarians of ancient Alexandria included Eratosthenes (of Byzantium), who determined that the earth was round and measured its circumference, Callimachus, whose catalogue established the canon of Greek classics, and the lexicographer Aristophanes, who pioneered the science of etymology.
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