etym.

or etymol

abbreviation for

1. etymological.
2. etymology.

Example Sentences

When Woods exposes an etym where there seems to be none in the German, he believes he is “in no way debasing or exaggerating this facet of Schmidt’s prose.”

From The New Yorker

For example, Schmidt turns the German word “falls”—“in the case of”—into “phalls,” exposing the etym that brings “phallic” to mind.

From The New Yorker

Corresponding with Woods by e-mail, I tried my hand at uncovering an etym.

From The New Yorker

Established. et al., et alibi=And elsewhere; or et alii or alia=And others. etc., &c., et ceteri or cetera=And others, and so forth. et seq., sq., or sqq., et sequentes or sequentia=And the following. ety., etym.

From Project Gutenberg

Etym., adeps, fat, and cera, wax.

From Project Gutenberg