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 | | The pure form of Old English cunnan has come down as the verb con meaning "to study." This is one of four cons in English, all unrelated. |
 | | The past participle of cunnan, meanwhile, has come down as cunning, which originally meant "learned." The sense of "skillfully deceitful" probably had emerged by the 14th century. |
 | | The ancient Greeks took a different path to form their word for "cunning." They took it from a word related to medos "counsel, plan, device, cunning," and median "to protect, rule over," and came up with medeia, which also was the name of the famous sorceress, daughter of the king of Colchis, in the mythologies. |
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