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Online Etymology DictionaryOnline Etymology Dictionary is a an Etymology Dictionary. The home page states itself as: ''This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). This should be taken as approximate, especially before about 1700, since a word may have been used in conversation for hundreds of years before it turns up in a manuscript that has had the good fortune to survive the centuries.'' Their webpage url is http://www.etymonline.com/ External Links Online Etymology Dictionary
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