etymon

English - Turkish

Definition of etymon in English Turkish dictionary

köken

etimolojik kök

kelimenin en eski şekli

{i} kök

{i} sözcük kökü

English - English

Definition of etymon in English English dictionary

A source word of a given word

{n} an original root or primitive word

Original or fundamental signification

a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

An original form; primitive word; root

The source word of a given word. For example, the Latin candidus (white) is the etymon of the English candid

Etymological source for a word The American Heritage Dictionary shows the immediate etymon for words borrowed into English and then more distant etymons in the development of the word The OED gives considerable etymological information

an earlier form of a word in the same language or an ancestor language See also: Wanderwort

{i} true origin of a word

Hyphenation

e·ty·mon

Etymology

[ 'e-t&-"män ] (noun.) circa 1576. From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (etumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”) from ἔτυμος (etumos, “true, real, actual”).