Online Etymology Dictionary
Free tierWhere English words came from, and what they meant
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- Historical word origins
- Related-word trails
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Etymonline traces English words to earlier forms. Look up a word and see what it meant centuries ago, not just today’s definition.
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- Historical word origins
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