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weasand

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Noun — The tube that carries food from the mouth down to the stomach.

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Inherited from Middle English wesand, wesande and wesaunt, which trace back to Old English *wǣsend, wāsend (“weasand, windpipe, gullet”), itself from Proto-West Germanic *waisund, *waisundu (“windpipe, gullet”), and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to flow, run”). It is cognate with Old Frisian wāsande (“we...

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