Etymology

adhering

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Middle English *adherynge ← Old French *adherer ← Medieval Latin adhaereō
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The story

  1. Medieval Latin · derived fromadhaereō“adhere”
  2. Old French · derived from*adherer
  3. Middle English · derived from*adheren
  4. Middle English · inherited from*adherynge
  5. English todayadhering

From Middle English *adherynge, adherande, present participle of Middle English *adheren, from Old French *adherer, aderer and Medieval Latin adhaereō (“adhere”, verb), equivalent to adhere + -ing.

Words from the same roots

Middle English*adheren all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.