Sentence examples for etymologizing from inspiring English sources

Although the etymologizing of proper names appears in the Old Testament and Plato dealt with etymology in his dialogue Cratylus, lack of knowledge of other languages and of the historical developments that languages undergo prevented ancient writers from arriving at the proper etymologies of words.

Romanian suffered from etymologizing orthography in the 19th century, but successive edicts of the Romanian Academy, of which the most important was dated 1932, have established a more-or-less-phonetic spelling (the notable exception being the depiction of final "soft" consonants by a following i).

In France, in spite of vociferous demands for reform since the 16th century, only minor changes have been accepted (usually originally from unofficial sources, such as printers), so that French orthography today reflects 12th-century phonology, overlaid by the etymologizing of Middle French legal scribes.

Adding to an extraordinary stock of rhetorical irritants is Iris's tic of etymologizing or parsing the obvious: "That's my trousseau, I thought...

The orthography is etymologizing and unphonetic and gives Faroese a strong Icelandic appearance.