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Back
(entered into English around 885)
Without dispute, the term for the body which is used the most. The term back is a noun, adjective, and adverb. As a verb it is both transitive and intransitive. There are dozens of phrasal verbs which contain the word back.
Common Teutonic and Old English bęc, Old High German bahho, Old Frisian bek, Old Norse, Old Swede bak, Old Icelandic bak, Middle Dutch bak, Low German bak, Swedish tillbaka rygg, Afrikaans terug rug, Danish ryg tilbage, Norwegian rygg tilbake, Dutch rugstuck, Latin tergum dorsum, French dos, Spanish espalda dorso
prefixes and suffixes which
pertains to back:
dorsal-, dorsa-, dorso- (Latin: back)
manus- (Latin: back of hand)
pedis- (Latin: back of foot)
homophones: back vs. bac
no homographs
minimal pairs: back vs. Bach
back vs. bake
back vs. pack
back (noun)
rear or convex surface of the human body which extends
from the neck to the lower end of the spine
Thank God, he only sprang, not break, his back.
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