单词 | etym |
释义 | etymn. = etymon n. Also: an etymology.In quot. 1939 punning on atom n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation > word from which others are derived primitive1565 root word1571 etymon1573 radix1612 stem1655 etym1748 1748 T. Nugent tr. C. Lancelot et al. Primitives Greek Tongue cxxvi. 116 μέμϕω, is also found for λαμβάνω, to take, in the Etym. ἄμεμπτος, blameless, irreproachable. 1783 G. W. Lemon Eng. Etymol. at Search Neither Jun. nor Skinn. have advanced any farther in the etym. of this word. 1839 C. Richardson New Dict. Eng. Lang. at Vale Voss. proposes three different etyms. 1847 H. F. Talbot Eng. Etymol. 470 Thing. I have already given an etym of this word. 1889 C. J. Smith Synonyms Discriminated (new ed.) 436/1 A Flare (of which the etym. is uncertain) is a dazzling, unsteady light. 1911 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 31 308 No etym. of value has been suggested. 1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) 353 The abnihilisation of the etym by the grisning of the grosning of the grinder and the grunder. 1990 P. Lendinara in R. H. Bremmer et al. Aspects Old Frisian Philol. 300 The generic word wēpen..has an unclear etym as well. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1748 |
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