etymologylessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

etymologyless (not comparable)

1. Without an etymology.
   • 2002 June 30, Keiva, Wordsmith.org‎:

     "'Nylon' may not be quite etymologyless.

   • 2015 February 22, “An Engraved Invitation”, in Linguist~Educator Exchange‎:

     But what Jan wants is not the opinion of experts who have taught thousands of teachers and thousands of children; she wants “a direct comparison of that approach with approaches that use multi-linguistic, connectionist word study methods, phonology + orthography + meaning and morphology without etymology” — as though it is possible to study phonology, orthography, meaning and morphology in an etymologyless vacuum. It’s not. That’s like trying to study lava without involving volcanoes.