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by tinyrick2 3265 days ago
I am also interested in etymology. For those who don't know you can type in "define xxx" on Google and get the etymology tree for word/phrase xxx.

It is remarkable how easy it is to find out an English word's etymology, which is very hard if not impossible in most other languages.

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CNTRL have a decent website for etymology of French words:

http://www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/h%C3%B4pital

En français, naturallement!