Etymologizing

  

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Etymologizing

Definition: Etymologizing

Etymologizing

Noun

1. (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Etymologizing

Synonyms: derivation (n), deriving (n). (additional references)

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Misspellings: Etymologizing

Misspellings

"Etymologizing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: etymologising. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Etymologizing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-g-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-t-y-z"

-4 letters: gimleting.

-5 letters: etiology, gemology, glooming, limonite, longtime, menology, mylonite.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-g-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-t-y-z"
 

+2 letters: demythologizing, remythologizing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Etymologizing


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 74 79 6D 6F 6C 6F 67 69 7A 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.    -    -.--.    --    ---    .-..    ---    --.    ..    --..    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01110100 01111001 01101101 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01111010 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#116 &#121 &#109 &#111 &#108 &#111 &#103 &#105 &#122 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0074 0079 006D 006F 006C 006F 0067 0069 007A 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39869179817881737592758073

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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