etymonically
English
Etymology
etymonic + -ally
Adverb
etymonically (comparative more etymonically, superlative most etymonically)
- In an etymonic way; in a way based on etymons; as analyzed via etymons.
- 2018, Su, Li, “Chapter 2: Ancient China's cultural constitution”, in The Constitution of Ancient China: Volume 9 of The Princeton-China Series, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 83:
- Xu Shen's Explanation of Words and Characters divides the ways of making Chinese characters into six kinds: indicator graphs, pictographs, form and voice compounds, etymonic compounds, graphically and etymonically related pairs, and phonetic loan characters.
- 2013, Llion Jones, Aled, Darogan: Prophecy, Lament and Absent Heroes in Medieval Welsh Literature, University of Wales Press, →ISBN:
- Giving weight to 'remnants' emphasises the fragmentation of the British; the suggestion is that they have been removed from a larger whole; they remain (reading etymonically through the translation), and they remain at least potentially negative.
See also
- idiomatically