Etymon

An Etymon is a Morphological Root in relation to some earlier Morphological Root.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) come from another Language.
  • It can be the input to a long term Word Formation Process.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • “wulf” is the Old English Etymon for “wolf”. (which from from the Proto-Germanic Etymon "*wulfaz" < from the Proto-Indo-European Etymon "*wĺ̥kʷos".)
  • “þe” is the Old English Etymon for “the”.
  • “couguar” is the French Language Etymon for “cougar” (from Portuguese "çuçuarana").
• See: Etymology, Morphological Root, Etymological Word, Etymological Word Record.

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References

• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/etymon
  • Noun
    • 1. A source word of a given word.
• (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=etymon
  • S: (n) etymon, root (a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes)

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