We address the problem of accounting for light neutrino masses in theories with dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking. We discuss this in the context of a class of extended technicolor (ETC) models. As a possible solution, we propose a combination of suppressed Dirac masses and a seesaw involving dynamically generated condensates of standard-model singlet, ETC-nonsinglet fermions. We show how this can be realized in an explicit ETC model. An important feature of this proposal is that, because of the suppression of Dirac neutrino mass terms, a seesaw yielding realistic neutrino masses does not require superheavy Majorana masses. We then generalize this mechanism to theories with extended strong-electroweak gauge symmetries.
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