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How to find any word's origin in 2 minutes.

Open wiktionary.org, type the word and scroll to the 'Etymology' section. There you'll find the chain: English 'window' comes from Old Norse 'vindauga', 'wind-eye'. Click the source word and repeat until you reach a reconstructed form marked with an asterisk, such as '*ph₂tḗr'. The asterisk means: unattested, inferred from comparison.

Useful: A word whose origin you know is harder to forget and easier to spell.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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