textbook
TEKST-book · noun
English
Origin
Textbook is a straightforward compound of text and book, joining the word for written content with the word for the bound object that holds it.
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Journey
It's remained a plain, literal combination of its two parts.
Related words
It shares its first half with every other 'text-' word in English.