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noun • The source word, or words, of a given word or expression. | ||||||||
45% | 7 | Forms, forms and more forms | ||||||
noun • needlessly time-consuming procedure | ||||||||
30% | 12 | Studies the historical changes in word forms | ||||||
verb • give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) • construct the history of words | ||||||||
Historical Word Forms Crossword Clue
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