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n. An earlier form of a word in the same language or in an ancestor language. For example, Indo-European *duwo and Old English twā are etymons of Modern English two.

n. A word or morpheme from which compounds and derivatives are formed.

n. A foreign word from which a particular loan word is derived. For example, Latin duo, "two,” is an etymon of English duodecimal.

n. A source word of a given word.

n. An original form; primitive word; root.

n. Original or fundamental signification.

n. The original element of a word; the root or primitive.

n. The original or fundamental sense; the primary or root meaning.

n. a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes

"This Minoan etymon is my attempt at better explaining (via expected Etruscan *caupaθ) the source of both Germanic *haubida- and Latin caput in a way that an over-cited Indo-European root (*)*kaput- just can't convincingly accomplish without fiddling with the phonetics."

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