etymon
noun
et·y·mon
| \ ˈe-tə-ˌmän
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plural etyma\ ˈe-tə-mə
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also etymons
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also etymons
Definition of etymon
1a
: an earlier form of a word in the same language or an ancestral language
b
: a word in a foreign language that is the source of a particular loanword
2
: a word or morpheme from which words are formed by composition or derivation
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