• Root (linguistics) (redirect from Etymon)
    A root (or root word or radical) is the core of a word that is irreducible into more meaningful elements. In morphology, a root is a morphologically simple...
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    are pairs of words in the same language which are derived from a single etymon, which may have similar but distinct meanings and uses. Often, one is a...
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  • filled by the term etymon instead. A reflex will sometimes be described simply as a descendant, derivative or derived from an etymon (but see below).[citation...
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  • Etymon is a song written by Bobby Ljunggren, Ingela Forsman and Henrik Wikström, and performed by Sonja Aldén, using the stage name "Sonya", during the...
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    Ferlus, the ethnonyms Thai-Tai (or Thay-Tay) would have evolved from the etymon *k(ə)ri: 'human being'. Thais often refer to their country using the polite...
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    postbiblical usage, Christ became viewed as a name—one part of "Jesus Christ". Etymons of the term Christian (meaning a follower of Christ) have been in use since...
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    English form, is a borrowing from Turkish, its etymon, or linguistic ancestor, the Turkish pilav, whose etymon is the Persian pilāv; "pilaf" is found more...
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    a link to the verbal morpheme ar- ("support") in favor of a Phoenician etymon in an unattested possible form *'arrab(a), signifying "guarantor in a commercial...
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  • Press. June 2001. Retrieved 2017-09-18. Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek μεγα-. ... Forming scientific and technical terms with the sense...
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  • (disambiguation) Mandrin (disambiguation) Mantri, an Indian title for ministers, the etymon for Mandarin This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...
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    Linguistics Research Center, Indo-European Lexicon, PIE (Proto-Indo-European) Etymon and IE (Indo-European) Reflexes: "baptism" and "baptize", Greek baptein...
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    coachbuilder producing bodies and interior for the Miata MX-5 The word is the etymon of the modern German Miete ("rent [payment]"). It is also a cognate of the...
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    'bible', refers to the inner bark of the papyrus plant. Papyrus is also the etymon of 'paper', a similar substance. In the Egyptian language, papyrus was called...
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    Kaukasos (Lat., Caucasus) and the Middle Persian Kaf Kof". "The earliest etymon" of the name Caucasus comes from Kaz-kaz, the Hittite designation of the...
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    Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: acro- comb. form, -onym comb. form. Etymology: < acro- comb. form + -onym...
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  • purchase. A poke is a sack or bag, from French poque, which is also the etymon of "pocket", "pouch", and "poach". Poke is still in regional use. Pigs were...
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    interpretation of the Slavonic or both Proposed Old Norse etymons for the non-Slavonic names Proposed Slavic etymons for the non-Slavonic names Ἐσσουπῆ Essoupi "Do...
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    of the Kurds, Iran and the Caucasus. Vol. 13. pp. 1–58. Generally, the etymons and primary meanings of tribal names or ethnonyms, as well as place names...
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  • (other conjugation) Stressed Unstressed Latin etymon 3rd singular pres. ind. Infinitive meaning Latin etymon 3rd singular pres. ind. Infinitive / Other form...
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    *gərin. Finnish linguist Juha Janhunen tentatively compares *gərin to an etymon reconstructed as *kalimV, denoting "whale"; and represented in the language...
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    root also has the Pre-Germanic form *pug-néh2- ('to blow'), which is the etymon of, amongst others, Dutch fok(zeil) ('foresail'). There is a theory that...
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  • nomothetēs νομοθέτης "lawgiver", from νόμος "law" and the Proto-Indo-European etymon nem- meaning to "take, give, account, apportion")), e.g., 'the nomothetic...
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  • attached to the court of a prince"; courtesan, -zan, 2, "A court-mistress", Etymon "a. F. courtisane, ad. It. cortigiana, in Florio cortegiana "a curtezane...
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    Zealand. The Māori name for the plant, kawakawa, is derived from the same etymon as kava, but reduplicated. It is a sacred tree among the Māori people. It...
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    "*Etimoloji: Kökenbilim, kelimelerin aslını ve evrimini inceleyen disiplin ~ EYun étymon "asıl" + logeía "bilim"". Nisanyansozluk.com. Retrieved 2017-06-30. Khani...
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    amaranthus (with H), comes from an erroneous association with the Greek etymon anthos (lat. -anthus) meaning 'flower', found in the name of many plants...
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    Eshmunazar II dated to the early 5th century BC. Compared to its Akkadian etymon waraḫsamnu, the name Marḥešvan displays the same lenition of ungeminated...
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    compared to the "triad" above, just the middle will etymon has been replaced by the work etymon. The name of such sanctuaries to Woden, Wôdenes weohas...
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    the word "legend" is the less common one—borrowed directly from its Latin etymon "legenda"—of anything which should be read, rather than a historically based...
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    the term for the central high point of a defensive position that is the etymon of the suffix of Bolton. There is evidence of human existence on the moors...
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