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spoor

Hunters at the Cape tracked game by its spoor, Dutch for 'track'; English took the word in the early 1800s, while in the Dutch East Indies spoor 'railway track' became Javanese and Indonesian sepur, 'train'.

Weakest linkCertain

The road to English

From Dutch to Javanese, Indonesian

1250Middle Dutch

Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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