etymon
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Arena is from the same etymon, altered in application.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
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
Was and wast, are the same as were and wert in meaning, being derived from the same etymon.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
Were, wert; worth, werth; word and werde, are derived from the same etymon and retain a similarity of meaning.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
His belief in a common etymon might be somewhat strengthened by a quotation from a "Journal of What Occurred between the French and Savages," kept during the years 1657-58.
From A Sketch of the History of Oneonta by Dudley M. Campbell
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 nouns in on, derived from Greek, the greater part always form the plural regularly; as, etymons, gnomons, ichneumons, myrmidons, phlegmons, trigons, tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, enneagons, decagons, hendecagons, dodecagons, polygons.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
Narrow etymons of the mere scholar and loose locutions of the ignorant are alike denied a standing.
From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce
These four simple etymons themselves may also become perverted.
From The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley
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
Who shall decide how much our fretwork owes to each of these possible etymons?
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
