Sentence examples for word derivations from inspiring English sources

There is, for instance, a bright and festively ornamented bar in Brooklyn where a tight group of regulars gathers nightly to drink away the day's frustrations, to work crossword puzzles and argue word derivations.

Meanwhile, the longstanding interest in the Indo-European group of religions was given a new impetus in the work of the French comparative philologist and mythologist Georges Dumézil (1898– ), who broke away from an etymological (analysis of word derivations) approach and sought instead the thematic traits of the gods in the mythical material.

Socrates' humour in the Cratylus is at least partly directed at his own uncharacteristic boldness in declaiming long strings of word derivations, contrary to his familiar disavowal of expert knowledge about anything.

As Grigory Vinokur has shown, Russian language is deficient in regular models of word derivation and has not yet employed its potential for systematicity on both lexical and morphological levels.

The surnames Stewart and Stuart denote essentially the same occupation but have a completely different word derivation.

A drummer himself in his school days at Permian, Mr. Acosta said he was unsure of the word's derivation.

Hence the superfluous B inserted into "debt" to underline the word's derivation from the Latin "debitum".

Other grammatical characteristics—including the systems of word inflection, derivation, and syntax, as well as a common vocabulary also exhibit a great correspondence.

His books titles include Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms & Other Doubletalk; Wicked Words, which is the opposite of Euphemisms in that it tells you everything you might want to know about so-called "bad" words, and Devious Derivations, a book about folk etymologies.

Although many assume the word is a derivation of azul (Portuguese for "blue"), the word is Arabic in origin and comes from az-zulayj, which roughly translates as "polished stone".

He offers the word "happicle" (a derivation from the idea that a particle is a small part of something larger).