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	Etymology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Etymology is the study of the origins of words.
		No description of etymology is complete without the mention of the Sanskrit grammarians of ancient India, who were the first in the world to make such a comprehensive analysis of linguistics, and especially etymology.
		Although many of Nietzsche's etymologies are wrong, the strategy has gained popularity in the 20th century, with philosophers such as Jacques Derrida using etymologies to indicate former meanings of words with view to decentring the "violent hierarchies" of Western metaphysics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Etymology (1724 words)

	Etymology Article, Etymology Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In this way, word roots have been found which can be traced all the way back tothe origin of the Indo-European language family.
		The word etymology itself comes from the Greek ήτυμος (étymos, meaning of a word) and λόγος(lógos, science).
		As a language, English is derived from the Anglo-Saxon,a dialect of West Germanic (as was Old Low German), although its current vocabulary includes words from many languages.
	www.anoca.org /words/english/etymology.html (560 words)

	Travel Information
		The name Holland in this and the other entries on this page ultimately stem from holt land ("wooded land").
		A popular, but incorrect, fake etymology holds that it is derived from hol land ("hollow land"), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English region (Holland, Lincolnshire).
		The province of Holland was the cultural, political and economic center of the United Provinces.
	travel.messengers.com.au (4021 words)

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