But the etymon he proposes is rather unsatisfactory. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
Currently I have the following specs on this etymon. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
The word confusion would be a strange etymon for the capital of a vast empire. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Richardson is also in favour of this etymon, notwithstanding its harshness and insipidity. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850] Reference
Your correspondent W. asks the etymon of "Cowley;" -- probably "Cow leas," or Cow pasture. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849] Reference
Both of them signify pleasantness: Naim, in the very etymon, implies pleasantness: and Engannim, a fountain of gardens. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
It is certain that either the German language or the Welsh may afford at this day a perfectly satisfactory etymon: Lap-heer in the former and. From Wordnik.com. [Count Robert of Paris] Reference
This has got me thinking hard and long because while there appears to be a relationship between the above words, finding a common etymon behind them all is tricky. From Wordnik.com. [A Minoan word for red dye] Reference
The idea of Yahweh, or Yah, is palpably Egyptian, the Ankh or ever-living One: the etymon, however, was learned at Babylon and is still found amongst the cuneiforms. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Her name appears to have been carelessly confused with that of a separate etymon however, an Etrurian city which the Etruscans called Aritim and which in Latin is called Arretium. From Wordnik.com. [Etruscan Artemis and the unexpected vowel change] Reference
Ankh or ever-living One: the etymon, however, was learned at. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
The German etymon is not incompatible with the story given in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Apple] Reference
Quintilian, who professed to discover the etymon of the Latin word. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852] Reference
Nothing in the recipe leads to the etymon of this multifarious dish. From Wordnik.com. [The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390] Reference
All words have an ON etymon unless otherwise indicated as Scandinavian (Scand). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3] Reference
Ut cniai alia praetertaiit tbtiffiini etymon nominis inde ducifur unde peti ip&e orcac funt. From Wordnik.com. [Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis] Reference
Another possibility would be that, rather than the compound pengwyn, its etymon might have been W pen + gwyn. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4] Reference
Four times, at least, it occurs in his works; and always in that sense only which its etymon indicates, to wit, "adulterous.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
The name bgas-fcola is undoubtedly the etymon of the French bouffole and Italian boffola, which Furetiere derives from buxula. From Wordnik.com. [Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis] Reference
And all the sciences must recur to the classical languages for the etymon, and sound understanding of their fundamental terms. From Wordnik.com. [Letters] Reference
A corruption of Crustard; Junius gives a different etymon, but whether a better, the Reader must judge. From Wordnik.com. [The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390] Reference
Romany kova ` person ') seems to be its more likely etymon. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4] Reference
Marisizis) and its etymon Micmac mali: sit, lit. 'one who speaks poorly or incomprehensibly'. From Wordnik.com. [Laudator Temporis Acti] Reference
His belief in a common etymon might be somewhat strengthened by a quotation from a "Journal of What Occurred between the French and. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the History of Oneonta] Reference
Qu. the etymon. From Wordnik.com. [The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390] Reference
Thanks etymon for that. From Wordnik.com. [New Media Medicine] Reference
A Cawdle; but quære the etymon. From Wordnik.com. [The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390] Reference
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