etymon
[ et-uh-mon ]
/ ˈɛt əˌmɒn /
noun, plural et·y·mons, et·y·ma [et-uh-muh] /ˈɛt ə mə/.
the linguistic form from which another form is historically derived, as the Latin cor “heart,” which is the etymon of English cordial, or the Indo-European *ḱ(e)rd-, which is the etymon of Latin cor, Greek kardía, Russian serdtse, and English heart.
Origin of etymon
1560–70; < Latin: the origin of a word < Greek
étymon the essential meaning of a word seen in its origin or traced to its grammatical parts (neuter of
étymos true, actual, real)
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British Dictionary definitions for etymon
etymon
/ (ˈɛtɪˌmɒn) /
noun plural -mons or -ma (-mə)
a form of a word or morpheme, usually the earliest recorded form or a reconstructed form, from which another word or morpheme is derived: the etymon of English "ewe" is Indo-European " * owi"
Word Origin for etymon
C16: via Latin, from Greek
etumon basic meaning, from
etumos true, actual