In Russian, the words for "caress, endearment" and "least weasel" are homonymous and possibly related etymologically.
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Etymologically
Synonyms for "etymologically"
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18 translations across 17 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ստուգաբանորեն adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Catalan
1 entries- etimològicament adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Czech
1 entries- etymologicky adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Dutch
1 entries- etymologisch adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Esperanto
1 entries- etimologie adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Finnish
1 entries- etymologisesti adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
French
1 entries- étymologiquement adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Galician
1 entries- etimoloxicamente adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Georgian
1 entries- ეტიმოლოგიურად adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
German
1 entries- etymologisch adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Greek
2 entries- ετυμολογικά adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
- ετυμολογικώς adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Hungarian
1 entries- etimológiailag adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Italian
1 entries- etimologicamente adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Portuguese
1 entries- etimologicamente adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Russian
1 entries- этимологи́чески adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Spanish
1 entries- etimológicamente adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
Turkish
1 entries- etimolojik olarak adv (Based on or belonging to etymology)
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Etymologically, checkmate means "the king is dead". However, the king has not "died" in the game of chess for a long time. In fact, the king is the only piece that cannot even be captured, although checkmate finishes the game and, strictly speaking, can be considered as a "death" for the king.
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Rivalry means, etymologically, a dispute between landowners because Roman properties were often separated by a river ("rivus" in Latin).
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The Greeks and Romans referred to everyone else as "barbarians" -- etymologically those who only babble, only go "bar-bar."
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