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Questions about tracing out and describing the elements of an individual word, as well as the historical changes in form and sense which that word has experienced over its history. Please use the 'phrase-origin' tag for phrase/expression origins.
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Does "give" as in "capacity to bend" derive from "to give" or another word?
I looked up the etymology of "give" on etymonline and it didn't say anything about the noun form. …
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What is the origin of "hot" as "good-looking" or "attractive"?
I'm not sure if "hot" as "warm" or "heated" existed before "hot" came to mean "good-looking" or "attractive", but if so, how did this new meaning come to be?
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How did “fʌck” become taboo? [duplicate]
I recognize that this is similar to Etymology of the term "curse words" and "swear words" and What makes a word offensive? … I looked up its etymology and found this:
ORIGIN early 16th cent.: of Germanic origin (compare Swedish dialect focka and Dutch dialect fokkelen); possibly from an Indo-European root meaning ‘strike …
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