Origin uncertain : unraveling the mysteries of etymology /
"Lost origins of words revealed. We like to recount that goodbye started out as "god be with you," that whiskey comes from the Gaelic for "water of life," or that avocado originated as the Aztec word for "testicle." But there are many words with origins unknown, di...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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Evans: Library Stacks
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PE1571 .L54 2024 |
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