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When Woods exposes an etym where there seems to be none in the German, he believes he is “in no way debasing or exaggerating this facet of Schmidt’s prose.”

For example, Schmidt turns the German word “falls”—“in the case of”—into “phalls,” exposing the etym that brings “phallic” to mind.

Corresponding with Woods by e-mail, I tried my hand at uncovering an etym.

Established. et al., et alibi=And elsewhere; or et alii or alia=And others. etc., &c., et ceteri or cetera=And others, and so forth. et seq., sq., or sqq., et sequentes or sequentia=And the following. ety., etym.

Etym., adeps, fat, and cera, wax.