etymonically

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Examples
The term hip fracture means a femoral neck fracture or (rarely) a femoral head fracture in modern medical terminology, whereas a reader might etymonically assume that it also included pelvic fracture (but it doesn't in current technical usage).

etymonically (comparative more etymonically, superlative most etymonically)

In an etymonic way; in a way based on etymons; as analyzed via etymons.
- 2018, Li Su, “Chapter 2: Ancient China's cultural constitution”, in Edmund Ryden, transl., edited by Yongle Zhang, The Constitution of Ancient China: Volume 9 of The Princeton-China Series‎^[1], Princeton University Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2021-03-21, page 83; republished as Daniel A. Bell, editor, (Please provide a date or year):
  Xu Shen's Explanation of Words and Characters divides the ways of making Chinese characters into six kinds: indicator graphs, pictographs, form and voice compounds, etymonic compounds, graphically and etymonically related pairs, and phonetic loan characters.
- 2013, Aled Llion Jones, Darogan: Prophecy, Lament and Absent Heroes in Medieval Welsh Literature‎^[2], University of Wales Press, →ISBN, retrieved 2021-03-21:
  Giving weight to 'remnants' emphasises the fragmentation of the British; the suggestion is that they have been removed from a larger whole; they remain (reading etymonically through the translation), and they remain at least potentially negative.