etymologise

Verb etymologise has 2 senses

• etymologise(v = verb.communication) etymologize - give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word); "The linguist probably etymologized the words incorrectly"; "Although he is not trained in this, his hobby is etymologizing"
is one way to derive, educe
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

• etymologise(v = verb.cognition) etymologize - construct the history of words;
is one way to construct, reconstruct, retrace
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s