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Definition of Etyma
1. etymon [n] - See also: etymon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etyma
Literary usage of Etyma
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... from an imagined likeness between the date and the end of a finger. It is of
Semitic origin ; in Wharton's etyma Graca, it is called Phoenician. ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1867)
"... of words that have actually been affiliated out of the sum total of what I
sent you in October, :— Total number of etyma 5733 Number of Provincial Words ..."
3. A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale, North and South of the ...by Robert Backhouse Peacock by Robert Backhouse Peacock (1869)
"There are 1192 provincial words in it, out of these I have found 1112 with
satisfactory etyma, and do not despair of finding the remaining 80 within the ..."
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