Etymon

Etymon is a term in historical linguistics that can be understood in two related meanings as:

that word form (or form of a word part) from which later linguistic expressions have developed; in this sense the roots of the words are etyma ;
the origin of the words or parts of words or the explanation of this origin.

example

The German words haben , heben , Habicht , Hafen and many others as well as Latin capere , Breton kavout and Albanian kap go back to the Indo-European verb root * kh₂p - 'hold, pack'. This developed root is the etymon for a whole family of words .

literature

Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language . 4th edition; Verlag JB Metzler , Stuttgart and Weimar, 2010, ISBN 3-476-02335-4
Theodor Lewandowski: Linguistic Dictionary . 4th, revised edition. Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg 1985, keyword: "Etymon". ISBN 3-494-02050-7 .

Individual evidence

↑ Both meanings after: Kluge. Etymological dictionary of the German language . Edited by Elmar Seebold. 24th, revised and expanded edition. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, p. XV. ISBN 3-11-017472-3 .
↑ Example from: Harro Gross: Introduction to German Linguistics. 3rd, revised and expanded edition, revised by Klaus Fischer. Iudicium, Munich 1998, p. 111. ISBN 3-89129-240-6 .
↑ The term in its historical understanding.

Web links

Wiktionary: Etymon - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

[1] Both meanings after: Kluge. Etymological dictionary of the German language . Edited by Elmar Seebold. 24th, revised and expanded edition. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2002, p. XV. ISBN 3-11-017472-3 .

[2] Example from: Harro Gross: Introduction to German Linguistics. 3rd, revised and expanded edition, revised by Klaus Fischer. Iudicium, Munich 1998, p. 111. ISBN 3-89129-240-6 .

[3] The term in its historical understanding.