U-bahn (n.)

German or Austrian subway system, 1938 (originally in reference to Berlin), from German U-bahn, short for Untergrund-bahn, literally "underground railway."

also from 1938

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covered with clay," from Latin lutosus, from lutum "mud, dirt, mire, clay," from Proto-Italic *luto-, *lustro-, from PIE *l(h)u-to...- "dirt," *l(h)u-(s)tro- "dirty place," from root *leu- "dirt; make dirty" (cognates: Greek lythron "gore, clotted blood,...

In Middle English, -u- and -v- were used interchangeably, though with a preference for v- as the initial letter (vnder, vain..., etc.) and -u- elsewhere (full, euer, etc.)....1630, under influence of continental printers, but into 19c. some dictionaries and other catalogues continued to list -u-...

minim

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umlaut

of some sounds simplified, to indicate the older ("proper") pronunciation; originally it was a full letter -e- above a -u-...When the umlauted diphthong came to be pronounced as a single vowel sound ü, the e was then written over the u by many scribes...

the Roman alphabet, but the Modern English sound it represents is close to the devocalized consonant expressed by Roman -U-...In 11c., Norman scribes introduced -w-, a ligatured doubling of Roman -u- which had been used on the continent for the Germanic...

almoner

"the Renascence brought up a number of artificial spellings," and Middle English Compendium lists aumener, aum(s)ner, a(u)...

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fast

Old English fæst "firmly fixed, steadfast, constant; secure; enclosed, watertight; strong, fortified," probably from Proto-Germanic *fastu- "firm, fast" (source also of Old Frisian fest, Old Norse fastr, Dutch vast, German fest), from PIE root *past- "firm, solid" (source of Sans

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early 13c., a Greek liturgical formula adopted untranslated into the Latin mass, literally "lord have mercy" (Psalms cxxii.3, Matthew xv.22, xvii.15, etc.). From kyrie, vocative of kyrios "lord, master" (see church (n.)) + eleeson, aorist imperative of eleo "I have pity on, show

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