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ETYMOLOGY
the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
The meaning of the word etymology is the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pulse | the regular expansion of an artery caused by the ejection of blood into the arterial system by the contractions of the heart |
| foolhardy | foolishly adventurous and bold : rash |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| engaged | involved in activity : occupied |
| providence | divine guidance or care |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |