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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ETYMON

Via Latin, from Greek etumon basic meaning, from etumos true, actual.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ETYMON

etymon  [ˈɛtɪˌmɒn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ETYMON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Etymon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ETYMON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Etymology

Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time. By an extension, the term "the etymology of " means the origin of the particular word. For languages with a long written history, etymologists make use of texts in these languages and texts about the languages to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods of their history and when they entered the languages in question. Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct information about languages that are too old for any direct information to be available. By analyzing related languages with a technique known as the comparative method, linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary. In this way, word roots have been found that can be traced all the way back to the origin of, for instance, the Indo-European language family. Even though etymological research originally grew from the philological tradition, currently much etymological research is done on language families where little or no early documentation is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian.

Definition of etymon in the English dictionary

The definition of etymon in the dictionary is a form of a word or morpheme, usually the earliest recorded form or a reconstructed form, from which another word or morpheme is derived: the etymon of English "ewe" is Indo-European "* owi".

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ETYMON


agathodaimon
ˌæɡəθəʊˈdaɪmɒn
chrismon
ˈkrɪzmɒn
c´mon
kəˈmɒn
coolamon
ˈkuːləmɒn
daimon
ˈdaɪmɒn
denouement
deɪˈnuːmɒn
gnomon
ˈnəʊmɒn
hegemon
ˈheɡɪˌmɒn
isodomon
aɪˈsɒdəˌmɒn
jomon
ˈdʒəʊmɒn
kakiemon
ˌkækɪˈeɪmɒn
kikumon
ˈkɪkuːˌmɒn
kirimon
ˈkiːrɪˌmɒn
mnemon
ˈniːmɒn
norimon
ˈnɒrɪˌmɒn
Philemon
faɪˈliːmɒn
plasmon
ˈplæzmɒn
salamon
ˈsæləˌmɒn
stasimon
ˈstæsɪˌmɒn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ETYMON

ettercap
ettin
ettle
ETU
ETV
ety.
etym.
etyma
etymic
etymol.
etymological
etymologically
etymologicon
etymologicum
etymologies
etymologise
etymologist
etymologize
etymology
etypic

WORDS THAT END LIKE ETYMON

Amon
backgammon
Book of Mormon
cinnamon
common
daemon
Damon
demon
in common
lemon
Mormon
salmon
sermon
Simon
Solomon
Strymon
summon
the Song of Solomon
timon
uncommon

Synonyms and antonyms of etymon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «etymon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ETYMON

Find out the translation of etymon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of etymon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «etymon» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

字根
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

étimo
570 millions of speakers

English

etymon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

etymon
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

etymon
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

etymon
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

étimo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মূলশব্দ যাহা হইতে অন্যান্য শব্দ নিষ্পন্ন হয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

etymon
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Etimon
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Etymon
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

etymon
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

etymon
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Etymon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nguyên ngư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

etymon
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Etymon
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sözcük kökü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

etimo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

etymon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

etymon
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

etimon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

etymon
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eetimone
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

etymon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

etymon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of etymon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ETYMON»

The term «etymon» is normally little used and occupies the 114.706 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ETYMON» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «etymon» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «etymon» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about etymon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ETYMON»

Discover the use of etymon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to etymon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Arabic Verb: Form and Meaning in the Vowel-lengthening ...
He introduces a third level of lexical organisation, the 'radical', accounting for the extension of the biconsonantal etymon to a largely triconsonantal morphology, defining the radical as: the etymon developed by the spreading of the last ...
Warwick Danks, 2011
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Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics XVII-XVIII: Papers from ...
That is true in part, but if we take any etymon, there are many roots related to that etymon where the third element is neither a glide nor a sonorant and they bear the same semantic value. The matrix (velar, dental) comprise many etymons, one  ...
Mohammad T. Alhawary, Elabbas Benmamoun, 2005
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Theory of Language: The representational function of language
Bachstelz' on the other.13 Perhaps the compounds used as proper names are more resistant to a fading of the etymon; what are we to make of the special aptness of compounds as proper names? In any case it is palpably obvious that if  ...
Karl Bühler, 2011
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Language, Cohesion and Form
And to do this we need yet another conception of the tzu4, the etymon. Here, immediately, we get two interrelated senses of 'etymon'; for we can have a wider sense in which many cognate tzu4 (taking tzu4 indeterminately, in senses (1), (2),  ...
Margaret Masterman, Yorick Wilks, 2005
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Linguistics and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Rulon S. Wells
interval between etymon and cognate. For just this reason the SHH, though necessary, is treated as in general insufficient as a criterion for a cognate set that is relatively remote from its etymon. In the absence of a PSA the criterion that is ...
Adam Makkai, Alan K. Melby, 1985
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Three Heirs to a Judeo-Latin Legacy: Judeo-Ibero-Romance, ...
The etymon is He het, first letter of the word hdxdm 'smart', used by thieves as a name for themselves (Wolf 1956, #2580). 6 Van Bolhuis c.1938. The etyma are He haver 'friend', used in the meaning of 'thieves' accomplice' and Du taal ...
Paul Wexler, 1988
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Stephanus de Urbibus. Que Primus Thomas de Pinedo...
Panionia. Vide lonia. Рачюашт lucus&urbsin oramariti- ma.Ephefiorum Samiorumqiie.jzj. 29. etymon, ib- Partium efle ípeluncam Palarftina: , un- de Jordanes effluit, 514 28. circa hunc locum quale rempliim Hero- des M. pofuerit Augufto , 515.
Stephanus of Byzantium, 1725
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Gesture in Human-Computer Interaction and Simulation: 6th ...
Etymon-Based. System. Two CyberGloves and a Pohelmus 3-D tracker with three receivers positioned on the wrist of CyberGlove and the back are used as input device. The raw gesture data include hand ...
Sylvie Gibet, Nicolas Courty, Jean-Francois Kamp, 2006
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Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords: Spanish, ...
(h)overo (Cs.) "egg coloured": as explained by Coromines, derives from Lll.fulvus varius, as Pt. fouveiro makes impossible the And. etymon **hubiri, attributive adjective of **hubira < Cl.Ar. **hubara "bustard", documented by Alcala and Alonso ...
Federico Corriente, 2008
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Explorations in the Sociology of Language and Religion
I believe that the etymon of Hebrew הלח is the Hebrew root ללח ħ.l.l. 'hole'. However, Even-Shoshan (1997:538a) points out that a possible etymon is the Hebrew root ילח ħ.l.y. (cf. הלח ħ.l.h.) 'sweet', but note the dagesh in the ל of הלח ħallå, ...
Tope Omoniyi, Joshua A. Fishman, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ETYMON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term etymon is used in the context of the following news items.
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The history of the word 'bad', Chapter 2
Sarrazin, who set up an etymon with a long vowel, expressed some doubts about his reconstruction because bad has never been attested with ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
2
Monthly etymology gleanings for June 2015
“The noun fragata must be a past participle whose ultimate etymon was, obviously, fraga 'strawberry'. A glance at the bird frigate, as it appears ... «OUPblog, Jul 15»
3
The history of the word 'bad'
A third candidate for the etymon of Engl. bad used to be Gothic bauþs, which has been recorded in the Gothic New Testament in two senses: ... «OUPblog, Jun 15»
4
An etymologist fidgets on a bad bed. Part 1: “Bed.”
Other than that, Seebold believes that “sleeping hole” is an improbable etymon for bed. This is true, but he should have looked at “grave,” not ... «OUPblog, Jun 15»
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Monthly etymology gleanings for April 2015
Hebrew alluf “chief judge” comes nowhere near Engl. aloof, and the history of the Germanic word has no place for any Semitic etymon. «OUPblog, Apr 15»
6
An embarrassment of riches
At one time, it became commonplace to derive the unattested Latin form barra, the alleged etymon of Germanic bar (as in English) and Barre ... «OUPblog, Apr 15»
7
Ossing is bossing
... reconstruction is less convincing, but he seems to have hit the nail on the head with regard to the etymon of at least one variant of the verb. «OUPblog, Mar 15»
8
Keys and bolts
However, one can be fairly certain that the etymon that yielded Engl. key sounded as *kaigjo- (j stands for what would be y in Modern English), ... «OUPblog, Mar 15»
9
Our habitat: threshold
Sievers reconstructed the etymon of threshold as þersc-o-ðl(o). Old High German drisc-u-bli (see it above) looks almost like his etymon. In that ... «OUPblog, Feb 15»
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Jeff Koons: Shiny on the Outside, Hollow on the Inside, Part 1
... becomes wholly dominated either by envy (invidia) or by insidiousness (insidia) – pardon the latter neologism or faux, Easyfun etymon). «Hyperallergic, Jan 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Etymon [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/etymon>. May 2024 ».
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