Etymology

skeletal

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Today it means: Shorthand for skeletal diagram (a black-and-white drawing of a [usually extinct] animal’s skeleton to be used as a reference for paleoart) Full definition →

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? ← English skeleton
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The story

  1. Englishskeleton
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  4. English todayskeletal

From skeleton + -al.

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