etymon

How To Use etymon In A Sentence

• In fact, I'm starting to get the strong notion that the real reason why some Indoeuropeanists like Julius Pokorny had included Sanskrit kapr̥t- 'penis' into his cognate series under the 'goat' etymon was just to make it look less like a substratal loanword restricted to Western Europe and more like a fully attested IE root in order to fill out his 1959 book Indogermanisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch. Archive 2010-09-01
• The establishment of etymon and the coding scheme for Chinese character.
• Notice, reader, how Proto-Japanese *mi 'three' is claimed to come from *ñi and that the attachment of *[ñ] to the Proto-Manchu-Tungus etymon is unexplained and ad hoc, together with the fact that a change of [ɲ] to [m] neighbouring a front high vowel is absurd and completely unmotivated from the perspective of rational notions of phonology. How to make a mockery of Proto-Japanese
• My view is that etymon not only can vanish but also can be achieved in the course of the development of the language, and achieving etymon is an important way in which alien words are nationalized.
• My view is that etymon not only can vanish but also can be achieved in the course of the development of the language, and achieving etymon is an important way in which alien words are nationalized.
• (as, for instance, "equable," "gratitudes," and many others), and by twisting or translation of its classical equivalents and etymons give it some quite new sense in English. A History of Elizabethan Literature
• Of the etymon of ‘pamphlet’ I know nothing; but that the word is far more ancient than is commonly believed.
• The blogauthor of Bradshaw of the Future noted that the American Heritage Dictionary combined 'to die' and 'to rub away' into a single etymon, something that makes perfect sense to me because it would suggest that 'to wear away' is the original sense from which 'to die' is to be derived through metaphor. Rubbing away the shine (1)
• I think maybe the key here is that while people will go in with degree's in relevant stubjects, others, such as etymon maybe, will go in with just the poor and simple smarts!! New Media Medicine
• But then, instead of calling the etymon "Hindi-Urdu cakor" or "Hindustani cakor," they invented a completely spurious distinction between what look to the untutored eye like two different preforms, apparently because their transcription system for Hindi uses c for the unaspirated \ch\ (presumably using ch for the aspirated consonant), whereas the one for Urdu uses ch for the same phoneme (and presumably chh for the aspirated one). Languagehat.com: CHUKAR.