etymon

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The etymon is in old English wrestling�to have on the hip; to render an opponent powerless because tractionless.

From Time Magazine Archive

Arena is from the same etymon, altered in application.

From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens

His belief in a common etymon might be somewhat strengthened by a quotation from a "Journal of What Occurred between the French and Savages," kept during the years 1657-58.

From A Sketch of the History of Oneonta by Campbell, Dudley M.

Were, wert; worth, werth; word and werde, are derived from the same etymon and retain a similarity of meaning.

From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by Balch, William Stevens

If this etymon be deemed unsatisfactory, they offer the following: from the Fr. isle, It. isola, Lat. insula, the word island, they say, is easily deflected.

From Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Bell, George