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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  -yl \-yl\ [Gr. ? wood, material.] (Chem.)
     A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical
     radicals; as in ethyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl, etc.
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     Note: -yl was first used in 1832 by Liebig and W["o]hler in


           naming benzoyl, in the sense of stuff, or fundamental
           material, then in 1834 by Dumas and Peligot in naming
           methyl, in the sense of wood. After this -yl was
           generally used as in benzoyl, in the sense of stuff,
           characteristic ground, fundamental material.
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