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单词 etymologizing
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etymologizingn.

Brit. /ˌɛtᵻˈmɒlədʒʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌɛdəˈmɑləˌdʒaɪzɪŋ/
Forms: see etymologize v. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: etymologize v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < etymologize v. + -ing suffix1.
The action or practice of etymologizing a word or words. Also: an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [noun] > etymology > action or process of
etymologizationc1487
etymologizing1607
etymology1725
1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders xxxvii. 292 Now this subtil and curious Etymologizing is not in these names onely, but in all other names of the Saints, registred in the booke called The golden Legend or Legends.
1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 145 I rejoyce not much in etimologizing.
1722 tr. J. Le Clerc Crit. Exam. Dean Prideaux's Connection of Old & New Test. sig. K6 Those who deduce this Name from..the Name Apis, as Dean Prideaux does, are not very happy at Etymologizing.
1771 E. Ledwich Antiquitates Sarisburienses 5 A rational employment..is etymologizing.
1828 Brit. Critic Apr. 322 The spirit of etymologizing is so seductive.
1880 S. R. Driver Hebrew Tenses (ed. 2) App. iii. 251 Reckless etymologizing is to be avoided.
1919 Mod. Philol. Dec. 116 One interesting thing about these etymologizings is their revelation at once of the knowledge and of the ignorance of the day.
1995 J. Fentress tr. U. Eco Search for Perfect Lang. (1997) v. 82 Other authors engaged in prospective etymologizing, projecting Hebrew words forward to show how they transmuted themselves into the words of all other languages.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

etymologizingadj.

Brit. /ˌɛtᵻˈmɒlədʒʌɪzɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌɛdəˈmɑləˌdʒaɪzɪŋ/
Forms: see etymologize v. and -ing suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: etymologize v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < etymologize v. + -ing suffix2.
That etymologizes or tends to etymologize; of or relating to etymology.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > other schools of linguistics > [adjective] > etymology
etymological1588
etymologizing1752
etymologic1771
etymonic1808
1752 Gen. Rev. No. 3. 113 That etymologizing Method he so vastly admires and venerates.
1845 D. MacDonald Treat. Baptism v. 102 If Tupper wished to give a specimen of his critical, etymologizing talents, he ought to have confined himself to the contents of the two passages.
1882 Athenæum 23 Dec. 844/1 Man is, as Mr. Palmer says, an etymologizing animal, and abhors an unmeaning word.
1908 W. P. Dickson tr. T. Mommsen Hist. Rome (rev. ed.) V. xii. 489 It is ludicrous to observe how a Long-beard—by which is meant an etymologizing Stoic—cautiously weighs every word in goldsmith's scales.
1987 P. M. Lloyd From Lat. to Spanish (1989) I. v. 361 The modern spelling -aba reflects the etymologizing concerns of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
2007 A. Hall Elves in Anglo-Saxon Eng. 11 The etymologising objection that supernatural is paradoxical, as everything is included in nature, such that nothing can be ‘above’ it, has proved surprisingly tenacious.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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