Etymon
/ˈɛt.ə.mɑn/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.
"Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed."
- 2 a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes wordnet
Example
More examples"Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed."
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).