'etymological origin' is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when talking about the origin of a word or phrase. For example: "The etymological origin of the term 'podcast' is a combination of 'iPod' and 'broadcast.'".
Michael Hanchard [Letters, Sept. 3] is wrong on the etymological origin of the word miscegenation.
It is important to remember that the etymological origin of the term miscegenation (as well as mulatto, by the way) is to "mis-mate," or mate badly.
Another part of the letter is quoted in the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary as the etymological origin of "redskin". When Goddard studied the letter, however, he concluded it was a fake: "The language was Hollywood...
H. L. Mencken popularized the brow system in "The American Language," and the critic and scholar Van Wyck Brooks was among the first to apply the terms to cultural attitudes and practices... There's more than a whiff in those words of their rank etymological origin in the pseudoscience of phrenology.
As the etymological origin recalls, resilience means to 'bounce', from the latin resilio or resilire.
In other words, m 7 and 不 *pK have their separate etymological origin.
Does spelling always respect etymological origins?
We start off with a course of PUMPERNICKEL, which has some interesting etymological origins in German.
To truly appreciate this skill, as suggested in a recent blog post by Michael Maubossin, we must return to serendipity's etymological origins.
Sontag's essay liberated 'patients' (she reminds us of the etymological origins of the word) from the stigmas around cancer, and from the idiotic but stubborn notion that 'the cure can be worse than the disease'.
When I was a graduate student at Yale I had a professor who insisted that when using words we must understand not only their contemporary meaning, but also their etymological origins.
