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French
Etymology
Present participle of étymologiser used adjectivally.
Pronunciation
Participle
étymologisant
- present participle of étymologiser
Adjective
étymologisant (feminine étymologisante, masculine plural étymologisants, feminine plural étymologisantes)
- Which conforms to its etymon (as opposed, for example, to pronunciation, morphology, grammar, etc.). (of the spelling, orthographic form of a word)
- Coordinate term: phonétisant
- orthographe étymologisante, graphie étymologisante ― etymological spelling
2009, Eugeen Roegiest, Vers les sources des langues romanes: Un itinéraire linguistique à travers la Romania, page 190:Une orthographe étymologisante réintroduit des consonnes latines dans des mots où ces consonnes n’avaient jamais été prononcées en ancien français: c’est ce qui explique pourquoi nous écrivons aujourd’hui encore temps (< tempus), corps (corpus), doigt (< digitum), sept (< septem), mais en même temps ces fantaisies graphiques permettaient de distinguer des homonymes (temps, tant, taon, corps, cor, etc.).- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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