What are the origins of the word "table"?
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2013 · Education
Anatoly Liberman, author of Word Origins and How We Know Them, on the theory of proto- and proto-proto-languages. http://blog.oup.com/category/language-words/oxford_etymologist/
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