ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Etymonically

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Etymonically is an adverb meaning In an etymonic way; in a way based on etymons; as analyzed via etymons.

Meaning

In an etymonic way; in a way based on etymons; as analyzed via etymons.

Example Sentences

Giving weight to 'remnants' emphasises the fragmentation of the British; the suggestion is that they have been removed from a larger whole; they remain (reading etymonically through the translation), and they remain at least potentially negative.
Xu Shen's Explanation of Words and Characters divides the ways of making Chinese characters into six kinds: indicator graphs, pictographs, form and voice compounds, etymonic compounds, graphically and etymonically related pairs, and phonetic loan characters.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eponymically, endonymically, unetymologically, onomastically, exonymically, etiologically.

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