etymon
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But the etymon he proposes is rather unsatisfactory.
From Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
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
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
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
The Gael. abhach, blithe, sportive, would seem to give a better etymon for the bright waters of Avoca.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
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
Ask for their etymons and meaning, and then decide.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
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
Who shall decide how much our fretwork owes to each of these possible etymons?
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
