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earthquake
a word from vocabulary
English
by
Anthony Grant
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Word form
earthquake
LWT meaning(s)
the earthquake
Analyzability
analyzable compound
Gloss
earth + quake
Age
c. 1300 [13] (1270–1330)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
5. no evidence for borrowing
Comments
nominalisation of verb ‘to shake, shudder’; but both components are Proto-Germanic in origin
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