Etymological used in a sentence

Etymological in a sentence as an adjective

As you can see from the post, I'm aware of the semantic and etymological difficulty. If you have a better term you'd like to suggest, I'm all ears; having it won't make the process I describe "more wrong" though.

But other etymological dictionaries say that the origin of the Old French term is uncertain and may not come from Greek.

There is no semantic or etymological difficulty. The process you describe has nothing to do with cargo cult.

It's no coincidence that fashion and faction are etymological doublets.

To be honest, I think it's just an etymological problem: "reduction" sounds bad, so "reductionism" sounds bad. The grandparent here follows this pattern.

So if RMS says something is "unfree", then it's glaringly obvious what he means, and in no way "etymological warfare". You could just as well complain about the English language being ambiguous.

The submitter included some etymological claims, in part that the term originated in the language of the Ojibwe native Americans. I find that pretty suspect, though it did appear on the site for some time before I removed it.

They're much like words in that we learn their meaning from context, and the etymological content is more of a subconscious mnemonic than something we explicitly pay attention to. Sort of like being surprised when you first notice that "disintegrate" is "dis- integrate".

I think the test might be easier for non-natives speaking european native languages, as they cumulate etymological understanding from several languages.

The problem with tossing all these things into the same etymological barrel is that you lose the ability to communicate effectively about their differences. Government restrictions imposed by force are not the same thing as market realities created by private decisions.

I thought it was pretty clear - he used "complect" because it shared an etymological root with "complex". The whole talk is about drawing distinctions between superficially related concepts, and using specific definitions based on words' etymological histories to do it.

After a while these mathematical musings start to resemble idle etymological ramblings in linguistics: eg, 'extreme' conflates 'out of' and 'sewer'; but then why those particular phonemes for the sense of 'out of' or 'sewer'? As my brother the research psychiatrist frequently retorts "You're trying to be logical.

Etymology is a complex and often convoluted topic, particularly for a language learner who may not be able to understand etymological information in the target language. Do you think there's no value at all in simplified memory ****, such as James Heisig's approach?

Perhaps they're using the etymological root of aware, which is "wary", and they mean they were unconcerned with its existence as they were unwary/unaware of any possible dangers with it since it was unknown to hostile forces.

This is understandable because covering all these cases will dramatically expand the number of words that have to be dealt with, and this is probably the limitation of the original source used by Google for the etymology information, which was probably an etymological dictionary with the usual space constraints. But freed from such constraints, it should be feasible in the future to add in the etymological information for such compounds. What I like is the tree structure of the presentation. This covers not only compound words but weirder cases of combination of disparate etymological sources—check out discombobulate or typhoon.