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While there is an i in tie, which is distantly related to team through teem, or etymologically, ahem.., abundance, the adage "there is no i in team" remains valid etymologically. Team [OE] "Team The etymological notion underlying the word team is pulling. It goes back ultimately to the Indo-European base *deuk- 'pull,' which also produced Latin ducere 'pull, lead' (source of English abduct, duke, etc). Its Germanic descendant was *taukh-....