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==Etymology==
− It is Middle English sauvage, savage, [[bor|fro|sauvage|t=wild, untamed, strange, pagan]], salvage (Anglo-Norman savage),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) from Late Latin salvāticus, an alteration by vowel assimilation of Latin silvāticus, wild, of the woods,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from silva, a forest, grove (see [[sylvan]]).^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021)^(NODE 1998) By its origin, savages live in the woods.^(Cresswell 2021)
+ It is [[inh|enm|sauvage]], savage, [[bor|fro|sauvage|t=wild, untamed, strange, pagan]], salvage (Anglo-Norman savage),^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) from [[la-lat|salvāticus]], an alteration by vowel assimilation of [[la|silvāticus]], wild, of the woods,^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) from silva, a forest, grove (see [[sylvan]]).^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021)^(NODE 1998) By its origin, savages live in the woods.^(Cresswell 2021)
==Earliest recorded meaning==