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skullbone

noun

Etymology

From skull + bone.

  1. derived from *bʰeyh₂-✻ — “to hit, strike, beat”
  2. inherited from *bainą✻ — “bone”
  3. inherited from bān — “bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”
  4. inherited from bon
  5. compounded as skullbone — “skull + bone”

Definitions

  1. The bone that forms the skull.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA