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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

-y4 repr., partly through AN. -ie, L. -ium as appended to verbal bases, as in colloquy, perjury, obloquy, remedy, subsidy.

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