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the first sound you answer to and the last word carved in stone.

means The plural of name — the words by which people, places, and things are known and called.

from From Old English 'nama,' the same root that runs through German 'Name' and Dutch 'naam,' and a cousin of Latin 'nomen' and Greek 'onoma' — all tracing back to the Proto-Indo-European root *h₁nómn̥, 'name.' One of the oldest and most stable words in the language: humans have needed to call each other something for as long as we've had words at all.

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