单词 | etymography |
释义 | etymographyn. Now chiefly historical and rare. (The study of) the historical spelling or representation of a word or grapheme. ΚΠ 1831 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 6 i. 301 (heading) Etymography. 1886 F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Jan. 103 It is as vain to ask us, in the name of etymography, to turn that name [sc. Shakespeare] into Shakspere, as it would be to ask us, in the name of etymology, to turn ‘Tragedy’ into Goat-song. 1932 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 1 92 The two units, the word, and the character, must be traced along their own disparate lines, one being amenable to the laws of etymology, the other to those of etymography. 2004 Iraq 66 46 The scholars..had to turn to more complex interpretive strategies, such as symbolic association, etymology, etymography and gematria. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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