Etymology

etymon

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Today it means: The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἔτῠμον (étŭmon) ← Proto-Indo-European *set-?
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*set-?
  2. Ancient Greekἐτεός (eteós)der.?
  3. Ancient Greekἔτῠμος (étŭmos)
  4. Ancient Greekἔτῠμον (étŭmon)
  5. English todayetymon

From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).

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