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etymology

derivation, word origins, word history, development of vocabulary, historical linguistics, philology, onomastics; see also language 2.

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The etymology of the word Pali is uncertain.
This etymology, however, is not much in favour now.
In etymology he endeavoured to find a Roman explanation of words where possible (according to him frater was =fere alter).
The etymology may be wrong, but this is the popular sense of the word.
Among the numerous conjectures which have been made as to the etymology of the term Africa ('Acppucii) may be quoted that which derives it from the Semitic radical.