====== 'Log' etymology ======

>Log (n.1) \\  An unshaped large piece of tree, early 14c., of unknown origin. Old Norse had //lag// "felled tree" (from stem of //liggja// "to lie," hence "a tree that lies prostrate"), but many etymologists deny on phonological grounds that this can be the root of English log. Instead, they suggest an independent formation meant to "express the notion of something massive by a word of appropriate sound" [OED, which compares clog (n.) in its original Middle English sense "lump of wood"].
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>Source : [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=log|Online Etymology Dictionary]]


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