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TonyEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Clipping of Anthony /Antony. The statuettes awarded by the American Theatre Wing are formally known as “Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre”; they are named for Antoinette Perry (1888–1946), an actress, director, producer and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, who was nicknamed Tony.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tonyEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From tone + -y.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗tonyEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From the name Tony.
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Are Feind and Freund the same root with opposite meanings?
No. DWDS and DWB compare parallel fossilized participial morphology. The antonymy does not establish one verbal base or a single lexical root.
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Are Freund and Feind the same root with opposite meanings?
No. Grimm explicitly contrasts the love verb behind Freund with the different hate verb behind Feind. Parallel agent morphology and antonymy do not establish cognacy.
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Are fiend and friend the same root with opposite meanings?
No. OED calls friend an antonym with a similar agent-noun formation. Similar morphology does not establish one lexical root.
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Are frēond and fēond cognates because Old English pairs them?
No. OED calls fiend an antonym with a similar formation, while the reviewed graph traces the nouns to different love and hate bases. Bosworth–Toller’s pair is rhetorical evidence, not genealogy.
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Are fiend and friend the same root with opposite meanings?
No. OED says friend is an antonym with a similar agent-noun formation. Similar morphology does not establish one lexical root or cognate pair.
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