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

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 Balch, William Stevens

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

The idea of Yahweh, or Yah, is palpably Egyptian, the Ankh or ever-living One: the etymon, however, was learned at Babylon and is still found amongst the cuneiforms.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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 Campbell, Dudley M.