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== Etymology == Cliff comes from the Old English word ''clif'' of essentially the same meaning, cognate with Dutch, Low German, and Old Norse ''klif'' 'cliff'.<ref>Oxford English Dictionary, 1971</ref> These may in turn all be from a [[Romance languages|Romance]] loanword into Primitive Germanic that has its origins in the Latin forms ''{{lang|la|[[:wikt:clivu|clivus]] / [[:wikt:clevus|clevus]]}}'' ("slope" or "hillside").<ref name="Buchmüller-Pfaff">{{Cite web |title=Francia 18/1 (1991) |url=https://francia.digitale-sammlungen.de/Blatt_bsb00016294,00175.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150129173209/http://francia.digitale-sammlungen.de/Blatt_bsb00016294,00175.html |archive-date=2015-01-29 |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=francia.digitale-sammlungen.de}}</ref><ref name="Pfister ">Max Pfister: ''Altromanische Relikte in der östlichen und südlichen Galloromania, in den rheinischen Mundarten, im Alpenraum und in Oberitalien''. In : Sieglinde Heinz, Ulrich Wandruszka [ed.]: ''Fakten und Theorien : Beitr. zur roman. u. allg. Sprachwiss.''; Festschr. für Helmut Stimm zum 65. Geburtstag, Tübingen 1982, pp. 219 – 230, {{ISBN|3-87808-936-8}}</ref>
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