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Etym

Etym \Et"ym\ ([e^]t"[i^]m), n. See Etymon.
--H. F. Talbot.

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etym

n. An etymon.

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Of all the languages Tolkien mentioned in Etym, Quenya is in any case among the tongues that were not very significantly affected by his subsequent revisions.

Then we also implement the word-order seen in Cirion's Oath, with the demonstrative following rather than preceding the noun it connects with: In the entry TA in the Etym, Tolkien actually described tana an anaphoric word for "that", meaning that it refers back to something already mentioned.