Explore recorded word origins
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Definition
The Story
Shared forms across meanings in other languages
Source: CLICS³, Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (Rzymski, Tresoldi et al. 2019, CC BY 4.0)
Corpus evidence
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Source: COCA and historical collections. Check the source and permissions notes for available collections; coverage differs by corpus.