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- BattleaxeLv 76 years ago
No "de-" prefix here. No "stroy" to undo. "Destroy" is a stand-alone word. The original Latin word was structured like a prefix.
- Anonymous6 years ago
It doesn't mean anything in English. Destroy is from the Old French "destruire" and that in turn came from the Latin "destruere". The "de" means "expressing reversal" and "struere" means "build".
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