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==History== English inherits the ability to form compounds from its parent the [[Proto-Indo-European language]] and expands on it.<ref>Fortson, Β§682.</ref> Close to two-thirds of the words in the [[Old English]] poem [[Beowulf]] are found to be compounds.<ref>Meyer, p. 179.</ref> Of all the types of word-formation in English, compounding is said to be the most productive.<ref>Plag, Β§6.1.</ref>
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