Etymology

adown

A1D2O1W4N1

Today it means: Down, downward; to or in a lower place. Full definition →

Middle English adoun ← Old English adūn
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromadūn
  2. Middle English · inherited fromadoun
  3. English todayadown

From Middle English adoun, from Old English adūn, earlier ofdūne (“down”), from of dūne (“off the hill”) (compare Latin ad vallum > Old French à val, used in the same way).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishadūn all →

downright

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.