The Origin of Abandon and Random

Bernhard Diensberg

doi:10.2478/v10121-009-0025-2

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The Origin of Abandon and Random

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

Volume 46 (2010): Issue 1 (June 2010)

By: Bernhard Diensberg

Open Access

|Jan 2011

Abstract

Modern English ban and related lexemes will be shown to have their origin in common with abandon, the latter of disputed etymology. This applies to a still greater extent to random, for the origin of which a plausible solution will be presented. A last paragraph is devoted to the etymology of Modern English PLAN.

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