etymologically

English

Etymology

From etymological +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

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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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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.”

Related terms

• etymology
• etymological
• etymologist

Translations

Based on or belonging to etymology

• Armenian: ստուգաբանորեն (hy) (stugabanoren)
• Catalan: etimològicament (ca)
• Czech: etymologicky
• Dutch: etymologisch (nl)
• Esperanto: etimologie
• Finnish: etymologisesti (fi)
• French: étymologiquement (fr)
• Galician: etimoloxicamente
• Georgian: ეტიმოლოგიურად (eṭimologiurad)
• German: etymologisch (de)
• Greek: ετυμολογικά (el) (etymologiká), ετυμολογικώς (el) (etymologikós)
• Hungarian: etimológiailag (hu)
• Italian: etimologicamente (it)
• Portuguese: etimologicamente
• Russian: этимологи́чески (ru) (etimologíčeski)
• Spanish: etimológicamente
• Turkish: etimolojik olarak