etymon
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The etymon is in old English wrestling�to have on the hip; to render an opponent powerless because tractionless.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your correspondent W. asks the etymon of "Cowley;"—probably "Cow leas," or Cow pasture.
From Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 by Various
Richardson is also in favour of this etymon, notwithstanding its harshness and insipidity.
From Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
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 Lower, Mark Antony
—Can any of your correspondents refer me to the etymon of this name, given to a vocation attached to our English courts of law?
