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From: Computers in Genealogy <>
Subject: Re: [SOG] Meaning of word 'NOWE' in a will
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:15:07 +0000


At 22:01 08/03/00 +0000, you wrote:
>"new" (which anyway was derived from the Latin "nov..."), especially when
>the word was used to

Actually, "new" and Latin "novus" are *separately* derived from
Indo-European, so Latin is not the source of the English word.

peter

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