Meaning of quasi-etymological | Babel Free

Definitions

Based on faulty etymological grounds or reasoning; employing the techniques of etymology but not in a rigorous, scholarly, or accurate manner.

not-comparable

Examples

“There was argument, public, private, and bar-parlor, with heated championship of one term or another on near-scientific, quasi-etymological, and a number of other grounds, but gradually one term began to dominate this philological gymkhana.”

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