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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5:Why is it called Beheading and not Deheading?
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Words like "decriminalize" are Latinate constructions; Latin through and through. The words "head" and also "behead" are old English; the "be" prefix denoted taking away. Another example is "bereft".

edit: technically the "ize" in "decriminalize" is Greek.