etymon
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Another etymon for Jews-harp is Jaws-harp, because the place where it is played upon is between the jaws.
From Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850 by Various
The Gael. abhach, blithe, sportive, would seem to give a better etymon for the bright waters of Avoca.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Was and wast, are the same as were and wert in meaning, being derived from the same etymon.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
The old French vairon signifies anything of two colours, and may possibly be the etymon of vaire.
From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower
It happens, perhaps yet more frequently, that a German name, which cannot be explained by anything within the range of Teutonic dialects, may find a sufficient etymon from the Celtic.
From Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson
The great mass of the words are traceable to Latin etyma, as in all Romance dialects a large portion of Germanic words are found.
From Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer
Who shall decide how much our fretwork owes to each of these possible etymons?
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Narrow etymons of the mere scholar and loose locutions of the ignorant are alike denied a standing.
From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce
He happened to know a few etymons more correctly, and to have some little acquaintance with black letter literature, and hence thought to give more weight to lexicographical inquiries than had hitherto distinguished them.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Of nouns in on, derived from Greek, the greater part always form the plural regularly; as, etymons, gnomons, ichneumons, myrmidons, phlegmons, trigons, tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, enneagons, decagons, hendecagons, dodecagons, polygons.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
I will even allow, willingly, that a more perfect Hebrew scholar than myself may esteem my etymons fanciful and incorrect.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
