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The word etymology is derived from the Ancient Greek word ἐτυμολογία (etumologíā), itself from ἔτυμον (étumon), meaning ' true sense or sense of a truth ', and the suffix -logia, denoting ' the study or logic of '. [3] [4] The etymon refers to the predicate (i.e. stem [5] or root [6]) from which a
Etymological Bibliography of Take Our Word For It, the only Weekly Word-origin Webzine; Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IEED) at Leiden University; Internet Archive Search: Etymological Dictionary Etymological Dictionaries in English at the Internet archive
Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples ... etymologic, etymologicon, etymologist, etymologize, etymology, etymon: eu-[152]
The Online Etymology Dictionary or Etymonline, sometimes abbreviated as OED (not to be confused with the Oxford English Dictionary, which the site often cites), is a free online dictionary that describes the origins of English words, written and compiled by Douglas R. Harper. [1]
An etymon, or ancestor word, is the ultimate source word from which one or more cognates derive. In other words, it is the source of related words in different languages. For example, the etymon of both Welsh ceffyl and Irish capall is the Proto-Celtic *kaballos (all meaning horse).
Some words in English have been reanalyzed as a base plus suffix, leading to suffixes based on Greek words, but which are not suffixes in Greek (cf. libfix). Their meaning relates to the full word they were shortened from, not the Greek meaning: -athon or -a-thon (from the portmanteau word walkathon, from walk + (mar)athon).
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The etymology of a word, unlike the history of it, breaks the word down into syllables and the syllables into elements and tries by this method to bring into light the true meaning of the word. (true meaning = etymon in Greek).--Nestanaios 11:01, 17 September 2009 (UTC) I'm afraid you're mistaken.