etymologies in English

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the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
Based on a rough study of etymology , these words for big numbers were popularized in 17th-century France and were based on the 14th-century coinage of ‘million.’
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1. Batton is an English and French (IPA: ) surname with several proposed etymologies

2. Between the two Abimelech stories in Genesis, there are several different possible etymologies for Beersheba's name:

3. Difference between etymologies of 'Allocable' and 'allocatable' Ask Question Asked 5 years, 1 month ago

4. The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation, 48 for a discussion on two possible etymologies of ren

5. The data dictionary or lexicon is primary and originally a book containing words arranged in alphabetical order with definitions, etymologies and other information.

6. Brogan is the transferred use of an Irish clan name from the sept “Ó Brógáin” (descendents of Brógáin) with debatable etymologies

7. There are two slightly differing, but related, etymologies for the origin of the term: One common etymology is that Bigot is a reversal of the codewords "TO GIB", meaning "To Gibraltar".

8. Back-formation from Aborigines, plural, borrowed from Latin Aborīginēs, a pre-Roman people of Latium Note: The Latin name was variously interpreted by ancient authors, though modern etymologies tend to claim that the word is a parasynthetic derivative from the …

9. Anodyne (adj.) "having power to relieve pain," 1540s, from Medieval Latin anodynus "pain-removing, allaying pain," from Latin anodynus "painless," from Greek anodynos "free from pain," from an-"without" (see an-(1)) + odyne "pain, torment" (of the body or mind), a word of uncertain origin, evidently Indo-European, but none of the proposed etymologies satisfies Beekes.

10. Moreover, words such as Amartia and sumphora, which have a bad sense, viewed in the light of their etymologies will be the same as sunesis and episteme and other words which have a good sense (i.e., omartein, sunienai, epesthai, sumphersthai) and much the same may be said of amathia and akolaia, for amathia may be explained as e ama theo iontos poreia, and akolasia as e akolouthia tois pragmasin.

11. It is not uncommon for Acronyms to be cited in a kind of false etymology, called a folk etymology, for a word.Such etymologies persist in popular culture but have no factual basis in historical linguistics, and are examples of language-related urban legends.For example, "cop" is commonly cited as being derived, it is presumed, from "constable on patrol", and "posh" from "port outward