etymon
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—Can any of your correspondents refer me to the etymon of this name, given to a vocation attached to our English courts of law?
A more suitable etymon, however, seems to me to be found in Ir. and Obs.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
It happens, perhaps yet more frequently, that a German name, which cannot be explained by anything within the range of Teutonic dialects, may find a sufficient etymon from the Celtic.
From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson
And that yt is the kingdome of Mercia, the etymon of the woorde doth teache; for þÿk in the saxon tonge signyfyethe a kingdome; meþcen signyfyethe markes or boundes or marches of Countryes.
From Animaduersions uppon the annotacions and corrections of some imperfections of impressiones of Chaucer's workes 1865 edition by G. H. (George Henry) Kingsley
I cannot admit any of these derivations, though perhaps my own etymon may not be deemed less irrelevant, viz. pellis, the skin of a beast, whence our English terms pell, pelt, peltry, &c.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
The great mass of the words are traceable to Latin etyma, as in all Romance dialects a large portion of Germanic words are found.
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer
Of these Tartar etymons I shall at present content myself with citing one, though, if necessary, it were easy to adduce hundreds.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
I will even allow, willingly, that a more perfect Hebrew scholar than myself may esteem my etymons fanciful and incorrect.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
The following etymons have been suggested: 1, pilum, Lat. the head of an arrow; the Spaniards and Italians call this ordinary cuspis.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
Who shall decide how much our fretwork owes to each of these possible etymons?
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
He happened to know a few etymons more correctly, and to have some little acquaintance with black letter literature, and hence thought to give more weight to lexicographical inquiries than had hitherto distinguished them.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
