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child
a word from vocabulary
English
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Anthony Grant
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Word form
child
LWT meaning(s)
the child(1)
the child(2)
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
Proto-Germanic [13] (-500–-100)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
5. no evidence for borrowing
Comments
Other Germanic languages have forms which suggest an earlier form more like *kind, and the -l- in the English form is unexplained. It may be a form of unknown origin in English.
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