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16 cent adopted allusion altered Anglo-Ind aphet applied Arab archaic Aryan association back-formation bird called Celt Chauc Church cogn coined colour common compds connected Coop corrupt Cotg Current sense Daily Chron dial Dict Earliest early etym Europ Flor folk-etym formation formerly Gael Goth Haml Hence Hind hist horse ident imit John langs Late Late L later Lord Ludw meaning MedL ModF native naut neol neut Norw noun one's orig Origin unknown Palsg Parv Pepys perh phrase Piers Plowm poet Port pres prob Prov Purch quot recorded replaced Sanskrit second element sense cf sense survives sense-development Shaks ship slang spec spelling suffix suggests surname synon Teut tion unknown origin Urdu verb Vulg Welsh WGer whence F word