Looking for sentences and phrases with the word etymon? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
Though the term business has been accepted as the etymon, pidgin may also have evolved from the Cantonese phrase bei chin 'pay money' or from a convergence of both terms.
Examples from Classical Literature
Richardson is also in favour of this etymon, notwithstanding its harshness and insipidity.
As we have above given an etymon of cobweb, we will here repeat our note on the word gossamer in the Fairy Legends.
Will you accept a French elucidation of the etymon of this word, which has sorely puzzled your correspondents?
The old French vairon signifies anything of two colours, and may possibly be the etymon of vaire.
I cannot admit any of these derivations, though perhaps my own etymon may not be deemed less irrelevant, viz.
Let me give only one etymon by way of preparation for my answer.
