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CC BY-SA 4.0 DeedExtracted from Wiktionary dump structures under CC BY-SA 3.0. Powers 114,869 linguistic lineage links, connecting modern English back to Old English, Anglo-Norman, Latin, Ancient Greek, Proto-Indo-European, and Sanskrit.
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