Etymon

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Original or fundamental signification.

II. Etymon ·noun An original form; primitive word; root.

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etymon
ĕtymon, i, n., = ἔτυμον, the origin of a word : etymon habere, to be derived , Varr. R. R. 1, 48, ...

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