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.
(1) Etymology refers to the origin or derivation of a word (also known as lexical change). Adjective: etymological. (2) Etymology is the branch of linguistics concerned with the history of the forms and meanings of words. See Examples and Observations below.