loam
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Noun — A rich type of soil made of sand, silt and clay together with rotted plant matter.
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Etymology
This word came into English through Middle English lom, lome, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), tracing ultimately to Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). It is a cognate of Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian l...
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