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Re:English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2... by e12e on Sunday March 28, 2021 @01:50PM (#26612451)
It's from an event I Praha - I mean that there's very little use for the word (as opposed to "kill" or "throw out a window". It's not like sheep and mutton.

Ed: see first part, and the section https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration#Origin_of_the...

It's not from old Latin, but rather from "new Latin".

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