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etymologia

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a term
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etymology
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    Term_Etymology
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    KipTerm_Etymology
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    study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time
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    the history and origin of a lexical unit (word or phase). In print dictionaries, the etymologies are usually given in abbreviated form, for example, for cabbage from Concise Oxford Dictionary: ME: from OFr. dial. caboche ‘head’, var. of OFr. caboce.
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