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beacon
beacon:
[OE] In Old English,
bēacen
meant simply ‘sign’; it did not develop its modern senses ‘signal fire’ and ‘lighthouse’ until the 14th century. Its source is West Germanic *
baukna
, from which English also gets
beckon
[OE].
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beckon