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Verb etymologise has 2 senses
- etymologize, etymologise - give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word); "The linguist probably etymologized the words incorrectly"; "Although he is not trained in this, his hobby is etymologizing"
--1 is one way to derive, educe
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
- etymologize, etymologise - construct the history of words
--2 is one way to reconstruct, construct, retrace
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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