etymonically
advEtymology From etymonic + -ally.
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In an etymonic way; in a way based on etymons; as analyzed via etymons.
- 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.2018, Li Su, “Chapter 2: Ancient China's cultural constitution”, in Edmund Ryden, transl., edited by Yongle Zhang, The Constitution of Ancient China: Volume 9 of The Princeton-China Series, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 21 Mar 2021, page 83; republished as Daniel A. Bell, editor, (Please provide a date or year):
- 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.2013, Aled Llion Jones, Darogan: Prophecy, Lament and Absent Heroes in Medieval Welsh Literature, University of Wales Press, →ISBN, retrieved 21 Mar 2021:
- Related terms
- figuratively, literally
- Coordinate terms
- idiomatically