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Definition of Etymons
1. etymon [n] - See also: etymon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etymons
Literary usage of Etymons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1826)
"etymons of English Words. By the late .John Thomson, MRI and AS, &c. 4to. ...
Nevertheless, the author has contrived to embrace in it the etymons of a very ..."
2. Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson, John Johnstone by John Jamieson, John Johnstone (1867)
"... etymons, Caled. 11. Drest, Sun of Munalt, ... etymons. V. Drust, No. 1. Isl.
тип, mouth, and ael-a, to eat, ..."
3. The Monthly Magazine by Richard Phillips (1826)
"... an Appeal to the People of England in the Behalf of the Distressed Manufacturers
312 The Tor Hill - - - - 652 Thomson's etymons of English Words 317 ..."
4. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom by Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) (1878)
"ON THE etymons OF MUSICAL TERMS. BY WA BARRETT. (Read Jane 27th, 1877.) Music has
been described as the universal language, the one medium understood in ..."
5. Pedigree of the English People: An Argument on the Formation & Growth of the by Thomas Nicholas (1873)
"... ETC., BUT WHICH SEEM TO PROCEED FROM ARYAN etymons WHICH HAVE BECOME THE COMMON
PROPERTY OF MANY EUROPEAN LANGUAGES, CLASSIC, CELTIC, AND TEUTONIC. ..."
6. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: In which the Words are ...by John Jamieson by John Jamieson (1818)
"... deviated from the plan of the great English Lexicographer, in placing the
etymons after the definitions. This mode is undoubtedly the most simple ; as a ..."
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