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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

pronoun (gram.). XVI. f. PRO-1 instead of + NOUN, after F. pronom, L. prōnōmen, tr. Gr. antōnumíā f. ANTI- + ónuma, ónoma NAME.
So pronominal XVII. — Late L. prōnōminālis.

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