Quotes with etymology

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  • Salman Rushdie Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Giambattista Vico The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.
    Giambattista Vico
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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