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Tainted Love

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The -tain verbs. The fascinating thing with these is that we have most of the family in English yet not the daddy of them, which would be a verb derived from the Latin tenere 'to hold'. We have a clutch of derivatives - tenet, tenant, tenancy, tenor, tenacity, tenacious, tenable, tenement - but we missed out on the verb which made it all possible!
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sustain   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
entertain   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment
retain   has been listed 4 times with 0 comments
abstain   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
detain   has been listed 1 time with 0 comments
obtain   has been listed 3 times with 0 comments
ascertain   has been listed 28 times with 1 comment
pertain   has been listed 7 times with 1 comment
contain   has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
maintain   has been listed 2 times with 1 comment
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