deriving

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Definition

noun (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase
verb reason by deduction; establish by deduction
verb obtain

Thus do these organs of the world proceed, As thou beholdest now, from step to step, Their influences from above deriving, And thence transmitting downwards. — The divine comedy, Dante Alighieri
But she will calm passion, and follow reason, and dwell in the contemplation of her, beholding the true and divine (which is not matter of opinion), and thence deriving nourishment. — Phaedo, Plato
There is a social or communal personality, at all events where human society is in question, created by any combined action and deriving from the instinctive, not necessarily imitative acts of individuals as conscious parts of a whole. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere

derivation, etymologizing

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