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pumice
pumice:
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Pumice
comes via Old French
pomis
from Latin
pūmex
‘pumice’. This went back to a prehistoric Indo-European *
poimo
-, source also of English
foam
and of Latin
spūma
‘foam, froth’ (from which English gets
spume
).
=>
foam
,
spume