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.
Source: wiktionary
Etymon
//ˈɛt.ə.mɑn//
Synonyms for "etymon" (7 found)
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1 entriesderived
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7 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 25 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَثَلَة noun (ancestral form or source word)
Armenian
2 entries- բնիմաստ noun (ancestral form or source word)
- էտիմոն noun (ancestral form or source word)
Asturian
1 entries- étimu noun (ancestral form or source word)
Bulgarian
1 entries- етимо́н noun (ancestral form or source word)
Catalan
1 entries- ètim noun (ancestral form or source word)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 字根 noun (ancestral form or source word)
Czech
1 entries- etymon noun (ancestral form or source word)
Danish
2 entries- etymon noun (ancestral form or source word)
- stamord noun (ancestral form or source word)
Dutch
1 entries- etymon noun (ancestral form or source word)
Finnish
3 entries- kantasana noun (ancestral form or source word)
- lähdesana noun (ancestral form or source word)
- sanajuuri noun (ancestral form or source word)
French
1 entries- étymon noun (ancestral form or source word)
German
1 entries- Etymon noun (ancestral form or source word)
Greek
1 entries- έτυμο noun (ancestral form or source word)
Hungarian
1 entries- etimon noun (ancestral form or source word)
Interlingua
1 entries- etymo noun (ancestral form or source word)
Italian
1 entries- etimo noun (ancestral form or source word)
Napolitan
1 entries- ètimu noun (ancestral form or source word)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- etymon noun (ancestral form or source word)
- stamord noun (ancestral form or source word)
Polish
1 entries- etymon noun (ancestral form or source word)
Portuguese
1 entries- étimo noun (ancestral form or source word)
Russian
1 entries- этимо́н noun (ancestral form or source word)
Sicilian
1 entries- ètimu noun (ancestral form or source word)
Spanish
1 entries- étimo noun (ancestral form or source word)
Swedish
1 entries- stamord noun (ancestral form or source word)
Welsh
1 entries- gwreiddair noun (ancestral form or source word)
Sample sentences
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Source: wiktionary
Parricide, the more usual word, means (1) "the murder of one's own father"; or (2) "someone who murders his or her own father" […] It is also used in extended senses, such as "the murder of the ruler of a country" and "the murder of a close relative." These are not examples of slipshod extension, however, for even the Latin etymon (parricida) was used in these senses.
Source: wiktionary
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