etymon

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *set-? Ancient Greek ἐτεός (eteós)der.? Ancient Greek ἔτῠμος (étŭmos) Ancient Greek ἔτῠμον (étŭmon)bor. English etymon From Ancient Greek ἔτυμον (étumon, “the true sense of a word according to its origin”), from ἔτυμος (étumos, “true, real, actual”).

1. The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowed word, affix, or morpheme either from an earlier period in a language's development, from an ancestral language, or from a foreign language.

   “Here such cases as ghost words & misglosses, secondary semantics, different etymologies for one etymon or one etymology for different etyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.”

   “The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).”