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Fossilized term

A fossilized term is a morpheme or a part of a morpheme that is obsolete and incomprehensible now but appears in a word or in an idiom. Some fossilized terms in English are shown below:

  • fro in to and fro
  • cob in cobweb, from the obsolete word coppe for a spider
  • rasp in raspberry, from the obsolete word raspis for a raspberry
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