a form of a word or morpheme, usually the earliest recorded form or a reconstructed form, from which another word or morpheme is derived: the etymon of English "ewe" is Indo-European "*owi"
Word origin
C16: via Latin, from Greek etumon basic meaning, from etumos true, actual
Examples of 'etyma' in a sentence
etyma
These depend on the phonological shape of the etyma and consist of epenthesis, paragoge and consonant deletion.
Andrei A. Avram 2007, 'Syllable restructuring in early Solomon Islands Pidgin English', Bucharest Working Papers in Linguisticshttp://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/syllable_restructuring_in_early_solomon_islands_pidgin_english. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)