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Synonyms for etymon

a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

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In final position a front-mid vowel is heard in the following words of obscure etymon: zaye 'grandchild' (<?
In Mark's etymon list for INDYCAR, "India" should replace "East Indies" rather than be added.
For this basic definition I return to the etymon of totem, an Ojibwa word collected in the eighteenth century by the explorer John Long.
To the best of my knowledge, nothing else meets or exceeds the six levels of etymons (words from which other words are derived) which INDYCAR derives from.
Les etymons en arabe: Analyse formelle et semantique.
Pour repondre a la question de l'analogie auditive des formes lexicales que nous interrogeons, nous nous attacherons, dans un premier temps, a demeler l'echeveau des lois qui regissent la structure du lexique hebraique, ses niveaux de representation, tel qu'il est concu dans la theorie des matrices, des etymons et des radicaux.
Unlike their studies, the main source of information for this article is the OED; that is why in case of dubious etymology, the etymons can be adscribed to different languages depending on the reference work that is taken into consideration.
Very few Sranan words closely resemble their English etymons; most have undergone substantial phonological changes.
Dans cet article, nous discuterons quelques-unes des <<consequences>> directes de l'application de la theorie des matrices, des etymons et des radicaux (1) (dorenavant MER) qui reprend sur de nouvelles bases le lexique des langues semitiques, en etayant notre reflexion a travers des donnees fournies par le lexique hebraique de la Bible.
Une theorie de l' organisation du lexique des langues semitiques: Matrices et etymons. By GEORGES BOHAS and MIHAI DAT.
Une theorie de l'organisation du lexique des langues semitiques: Matrices et etymons. Collection Languages.
The key feature of the morphosemantic field is that each derived form is related to an etymon (the etymologically basic lexeme, root or base lexeme) in a different way.
Tappolet (1895), Merlo (1904), Zauner (1902), and many others defined "lexical change" as the result of one of the processes under (3), whereas the changes under (2) were merely seen as irregular developments of the same etymon, or lexical item, but not as a lexical, or "lexemic," change.