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By Talia Felix, Assistant Editor.</section></div><div class="card__footer--19gKg"><div class="card__footer_inner--1S1pl"><span>Read article</span><span><i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></span></div></div></div></div></div></a></div></div></div><section class="desc"><h2>Online Etymology Dictionary </h2><br/><p>This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. <strong><a href="/word/etymology">Etymologies</a></strong> are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.</p><br/><p>The dates beside a word indicate the earliest year for which there is a surviving written record of that word (in English, unless otherwise indicated). 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