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The etymon refers to the predicate (i.e. stem [5] or root [6]) from which a later word or morpheme derives. For example, the Latin word candidus, which means ' white ', is the etymon of English candid. Relationships are often less transparent, however.
An etymon, or ancestor word, is the ultimate source word from which one or more cognates derive. In other words, it is the source of related words in different languages. For example, the etymon of both Welsh ceffyl and Irish capall is the Proto-Celtic *kaballos (all meaning horse).
"Land of Algiers", a Latinization of French colonial name l'Algérie adopted in 1839. [10] The city's name derives from French Alger, itself from Catalan Aldjère, [11] from the Ottoman Turkish Cezayir and Arabic al-Jazāʼir (الجزائر, "the Islands").
The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z.
The traditional definition allows roots to be either free morphemes or bound morphemes. Root morphemes are the building blocks for affixation and compounds. However, in polysynthetic languages with very high levels of inflectional morphology, the term "root" is generally synonymous with "free morpheme".
The Online Etymology Dictionary has been referenced by Oxford University's "Arts and Humanities Community Resource" catalog as "an excellent tool for those seeking the origins of words" [6] and cited in the Chicago Tribune as one of the "best resources for finding just the right word". [7]
The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology is an etymological dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.The first editor of the dictionary was Charles Talbut Onions, who spent his last twenty years largely devoted to completing the first edition, published in 1966, which treated over 38,000 words and went to press just before his death.
Apishamore (definition) From a word in an Algonquian language meaning "something to lie down upon" [6] ... from the same Proto-Algonquian etymon as "wigwam" (see below).