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		esquivalience on April 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The origin of “log in” (2011) Surprised it hasn't come up in this thread already, but an excellent and free resource for this sort of thing is EtymOnline[0]. It's volunteer-made[1], has an easy search and quick on-results-page answers. Here's the search page for Log: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=log [0] http://www.etymonline.com [1] at least mostly - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580631

pbhjpbhj on April 30, 2014 [–]

I find http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/etymology [the talk page for that one is fun] to be pretty good as an adjunct to EtymOnline.

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