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textbook

TEKST-book · noun

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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.

Journey

The facts available don't describe any shift in meaning — 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, but no specific cognate is given in the facts here.

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