(linguistics) The original or earlier form of an inherited or borrowedword,affix, ormorpheme 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 oneetymon or one etymology for differentetyma, and finally semantic overpermissiveness are discussed.
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, inEnglish World-Wide[1], page 5:
The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning,etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found).
2016, Bryan A. Garner,Garner's Modern English Usage, 4th edition:
Parricide, the more usual word, means (1) "the murder of one's own father"; or (2) "someone who murders his or her own father" […] It is also used in extended senses, such as "the murder of the ruler of a country" and "the murder of a close relative." These are not examples of slipshod extension, however, for even the Latinetymon (parricida) was used in these senses.
