My water suddenly got WAY too hot. I replaced both upper and lower thermostats on my State water heater, only to find that when I turned the breaker back on it was buzzing. I thought it might be a faulty breaker, so I replaced the breaker with a new 30 amp double pole breaker switch and everything seemed back to normal.
plural etymologies. Learner's definition of ETYMOLOGY. 1. [count] : an explanation of where a word came from : the history of a word. According to its etymology, the English word âdopeâ comes from the Dutch word âdoopâ (which means âsauceâ). Several different etymologies have been proposed.
folkâ² etymol`ogy. 1. a modification of a linguistic form according either to a falsely assumed etymology, as Welsh rarebit from Welsh rabbit, or to a historically irrelevant analogy, as bridegroom from bridegome. 2. a popular but false notion of the origin of a word.