单词 | etymon |
例句 | Maybe it’s a problem with the term itself: the Latin etymon, avunculus, specifically denoted a mother’s brother. What does it mean to be an uncle? I have no blueprint for the love I feel for my nephew | Tiger Webb 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z —Can any of your correspondents refer me to the etymon of this name, given to a vocation attached to our English courts of law? Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-08T02:00:23.437Z The following etymons have been suggested: 1, pilum, Lat. the head of an arrow; the Spaniards and Italians call this ordinary cuspis. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z I will even allow, willingly, that a more perfect Hebrew scholar than myself may esteem my etymons fanciful and incorrect. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z It happens, perhaps yet more frequently, that a German name, which cannot be explained by anything within the range of Teutonic dialects, may find a sufficient etymon from the Celtic. Surnames as a Science 2011-09-26T02:00:27.097Z Gael. arg, white, which has been generally adduced as the etymon of these names, may intermix. The River-Names of Europe 2011-04-20T02:00:18.983Z Of these Tartar etymons I shall at present content myself with citing one, though, if necessary, it were easy to adduce hundreds. The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] 2011-03-27T02:00:17.093Z I cannot admit any of these derivations, though perhaps my own etymon may not be deemed less irrelevant, viz. pellis, the skin of a beast, whence our English terms pell, pelt, peltry, &c. The Curiosities of Heraldry 2012-02-23T03:00:41.067Z He happened to know a few etymons more correctly, and to have some little acquaintance with black letter literature, and hence thought to give more weight to lexicographical inquiries than had hitherto distinguished them. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance If this etymon be deemed unsatisfactory, they offer the following: from the Fr. isle, It. isola, Lat. insula, the word island, they say, is easily deflected. Notes and Queries, Number 194, July 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc A more suitable etymon, however, seems to me to be found in Ir. and Obs. The River-Names of Europe 2011-04-20T02:00:18.983Z But the etymon he proposes is rather unsatisfactory. Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. These four simple etymons themselves may also become perverted. The Romance of Names Who shall decide how much our fretwork owes to each of these possible etymons? The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Arena is from the same etymon, altered in application. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. The great mass of the words are traceable to Latin etyma, as in all Romance dialects a large portion of Germanic words are found. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence His belief in a common etymon might be somewhat strengthened by a quotation from a "Journal of What Occurred between the French and Savages," kept during the years 1657-58. A Sketch of the History of Oneonta Hence the locality was termed by them Cold Harbour, corrupted, Cădhārber, and the etymon remains to this day. Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850 Richardson is also in favour of this etymon, notwithstanding its harshness and insipidity. Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 Ask for their etymons and meaning, and then decide. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. A pertinent instance will be found in the true etymon of Brytenwealda, given by Mr. Kemble in his chapter "On the Growth of the kingly Power." Notes and Queries, Number 27, May 4, 1850 Narrow etymons of the mere scholar and loose locutions of the ignorant are alike denied a standing. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults Your correspondent W. asks the etymon of "Cowley;"—probably "Cow leas," or Cow pasture. Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849 Of nouns in on, derived from Greek, the greater part always form the plural regularly; as, etymons, gnomons, ichneumons, myrmidons, phlegmons, trigons, tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, enneagons, decagons, hendecagons, dodecagons, polygons. The Grammar of English Grammars But most often the 'etyma' being equivalent, we must proceed 'ex arbitrio,' as 'law compels,' 'religion obliges;' or take up what had been begun in some one derivative. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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