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etymon
noun
(et-y-mon)
an earlier form of a word in the same language or an ancestral language
etymon
noun
(et-y-mon)
a word in a foreign language that is the source of a particular loanword
etymon
noun
(et-y-mon)
a word or morpheme from which words are formed by composition or derivation
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