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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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'OUNCE.subsequently dropped. If this be so the word is the same as "lynx," from the popular Lat. luncia = lyncia, Gr. My. On the other hand once and onza may be nasalized forms of yuz, the Persian name of the panther.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Ounce'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​o/ounce.html. 1910.
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