Dictionary

etymon en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛt.ɪ.mɒn/ (UK)
• /ˈɛt.ə.mɒn/ (UK)
• /ˈɛt.ə.mɑn/ (General-American)
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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *set-? Ancient Greek ἐτεός (eteós)der.? Ancient Greek ἔτῠμος (étŭmos) Ancient Greek ἔτῠμον (étŭmon)bor. English etymon From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).

Meanings

1. The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.
   • Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed. 2006, Folia orientalia - Volumes 42-43, page 467:
   • Parricide, the more usual word, means (1) "the murder of one's own father"; or (2) "someone who murders his or her own father" […] It is also used in extended senses, such as "the murder of the ruler of a country" and "the murder of a close relative." These are not examples of slipshod extension, however, for even the Latin etymon (parricida) was used in these senses. 2016, Bryan A. Garner, Garner's Modern English Usage, 4th edition:
   • The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found). 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 5:

Forms

Antonyms

derivative · reflex

Coordinates

cognate

Deriveds

etymonically · etymonic

Relateds

cognate · etymologize · root · etymology · etymologist

Synonyms

etym · ancestor

Translations (31)

ro etimon (ancestral form or source word) · nb etymon (ancestral form or source word) · sv stamord (ancestral form or source word) · pt étimo (ancestral form or source word) · scn ètimu (ancestral form or source word) · fi kantasana (ancestral form or source word) · it etimo (ancestral form or source word) · el έτυμο (ancestral form or source word) · da stamord (ancestral form or source word) · ar أَثَلَة (ancestral form or source word) · es étimo (ancestral form or source word) · hy էտիմոն (ancestral form or source word) · hu etimon (ancestral form or source word) · pl etymon (ancestral form or source word) · fi sanajuuri (ancestral form or source word) · fi lähdesana (ancestral form or source word) · ru этимо́н (ancestral form or source word) · hy բնիմաստ (ancestral form or source word) · bg етимо́н (ancestral form or source word) · nb stamord (ancestral form or source word) · ast étimu (ancestral form or source word) · de Etymon (ancestral form or source word) · ca ètim (ancestral form or source word) · fr étymon (ancestral form or source word) · ia etymo (ancestral form or source word) · nl etymon (ancestral form or source word) · da etymon (ancestral form or source word) · cs etymon (ancestral form or source word) · cmn 字根 (ancestral form or source word) · cy gwreiddair (ancestral form or source word) · nap ètimu (ancestral form or source word)

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