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by Quirkie on December 14th, 2005
Had Pete looked a little bit harder he would have found that the word lost, according to www.etymonline.com comes from the Old English losian "be lost, perish," from los "destruction, loss," from Proto-Germanic *lausa , from Proto-Indo-European base *leu- "to loosen, divide, cut apart, untie, separate"
by Southpaw Pete on December 1st, 2005
lost (adj.)
"defeated" (c.1300), "wasted, spent in vain," c.1500; also "no longer to be found" (1526), from the pp. of lose (q.v.).
from: http://www.etymonline.com
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