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English
Etymology
From etymological + -ly.
Adverb
etymologically (comparative more etymologically, superlative most etymologically)
- Based on or belonging to etymology.
2004 May 18, Robin Tolmach Lakoff, “ESSAY; From Ancient Greece to Iraq, the Power of Words in Wartime”, in The New York Times:The Greeks and Romans referred to everyone else as "barbarians" -- etymologically those who only babble, only go "bar-bar."
2014 October 20, Jochen Bittner, “Germany Without Angst? That Worries Me.”, in The New York Times:The German language, as far as I know, is the only one in the world in which the words for debt and guilt are etymologically the same — the word for debt is “Schulden,” and for guilt it’s “Schuld.”
Translations
Based on or belonging to etymology