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WORD STORY: Accompany.
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WORD STORY: Accompany. To accompany someone is to go or be present with them. The word belongs to the family of “companion”.
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WHERE THE NAME CAME FROM: The source of “accompany”. “Companion” ultimately came from Late Latin “companio”: a bread-fellow, or someone with whom you ate.
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HOW THE MEANING CHANGED: Company began with shared bread.. Sharing food named a person in your company. The verb widened to events occurring together and music performed beside another part.
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