etymologically

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Etymology

From etymological +‎ -ly.

Adverb

etymologically (comparative more etymologically, superlative most etymologically)

  1. 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.”

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