SOUVENIR

souvenir (n.) 1775, "a remembrance or memory," from French souvenir (12c.), from Old French noun use of souvenir (v.) "to remember, come to mind," from Latin subvenire "come to mind," from sub "up from below" + venire "to come," from a suffixed form of PIE root *gwa- "to go, come." Meaning "token of remembrance, memento" is first recorded 1782. That mirror from my childhood house used to be my opening to the dream world. Now, it's the souvenir of my childhood.