Defenition of the word etymon
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Defenition of the word etymon
- An earlier form of a word in the same language or in an ancestor language.
- A word in a foreign language from which a particular loanword is derived.
- a word form from which other words are derived
- a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
Hypernyms for the word etymon
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- descriptor
- form
- signifier
- word form
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