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• By Anatoly Liberman

Your site titled “Brand new Oxford Etymologist,” and therefore become towards the , and you can which looks all of the Wednesday, precipitation or stick out (this can be Article no. 663), owes nearly all their subjects so you can connection. A few years ago, We wrote concerning puzzling Blonde verb liugan “to rest, give falsehoods” and you can “so you can ) and regarding etymology of one's English verb bless ().