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What is the origin of the word oboe?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Wiktionary offers this etymology: "An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut ("high, loud") and bois ("wood, woodwind")."

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