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approximately 522 BCE) employed inventive etymologies to flatter his patrons. Plutarch employed etymologies insecurely based on fancied resemblances in...

popular false etymology. Such etymologies often have the feel of urban legends and can be more colorful and fanciful than the typical etymologies found in...

We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-516147-2. Adrian Room (1986). Dictionary of True Etymologies. Routledge &...

The Etymologies may refer to: The Etymologies (Tolkien), a 1930s word-list for his Elvish languages Etymologiae, also called The Etymologies, written by...

Look up etymology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Etymology is the study of the history of words. Etymology or etymologies may also refer to: Etymologiae...

is a list of etymological lists. List of computer term etymologies List of band name etymologies List of chemical element name etymologies Non-loanwords...

English-language country names with their etymologies. Some of these include notes on indigenous names and their etymologies. Countries in italics are endonyms...

List of common false etymologies of English words The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology A Dictionary of English Etymology This disambiguation page...

Several etymologies have been proposed for the word OK or okay. The majority can be easily classified as false etymologies, or possibly folk etymologies. H...

This article lists the etymology of chemical elements of the periodic table. Throughout the history of chemistry, many chemical elements have been discovered...

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa. With a population of more than 47.6 million in the 2019...

The Etymologies is J. R. R. Tolkien's etymological dictionary of his constructed Elvish languages, written during the 1930s. As a philologist, he was professionally...

Karnataka is an Indian state. Several etymologies have been suggested for the name Karnataka. The region was popularly referred to as 'kar nata’ literally...

Sarajevo (/ˌsærəˈjeɪvoʊ/ SARR-ə-YAY-voh) is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a population of 275,524 in its administrative...

The etymology of the various Chinese words for the English word tea reflects the history of transmission of tea drinking culture and trade from China...

History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') is the systematic study and documentation of human...

city names with their etymologies. Some of these include notes on indigenous names and their etymologies. Some of these etymologies are uncertain. The former...

last, Scottish high king". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2023-10-09. Online Etymology Dictionary: "Scot" Sir Charles Oman: A History of England before the Norman...

lists of North American place name etymologies: Mexican state name etymologies Canadian provincial name etymologies Origins of names of cities in Canada...

An etymological fallacy is an argument of equivocation, arguing that a word is defined by its etymology, and that its customary usage is therefore incorrect...