## Etymology
A compound of passage + way. Passage comes from Old French passage, from passer 'to pass', from Vulgar Latin passare, from Latin passus 'step, pace'; way is native English from Old English weg.

## AI Etymology
Passageway is a compound of passage + way. Passage comes from Old French passage, from passer 'to pass', from Vulgar Latin passare, from Latin passus 'step, pace'; way is native English from Old English weg. Important recorded forms include passus (Latin) and weg (Old English). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense remains close to that composition, with the parts narrowing into a single lexical item. In current use it covers a corridor or narrow way allowing passage between places. The wider family includes related words such as passage and pass.

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- Space, Position & Direction
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