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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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string1 line, cord OE.; number of things strung together XV. OE.
streng = MLG.
strenge, MDu.
strenc,
stranc, OHG.
stranc, ON.
strengr :- Gmc. *
straŋʒiz (see
STRONG).
Hence
string2 pt., pp.
strung fit (a bow) with its string XVI (isolated ex. of pp.
ystrenged XIV); make tense XVI; bind (as) with string XVII. f. prec.
stringed (
-ED 2) having a string or strings. First in OE.
tȳnstrenged ten-stringed (Psalm 91: 4).
stringy (
-Y1) XVII.
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