Etymology

attorn

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Today it means: To transfer one's obligations from one person to another person. Full definition →

Middle English attournen ← Old French atorner
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromatorner“designate”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromattournen
  3. English todayattorn

From Middle English attournen, from Old French atorner (“designate”), from a- (“to”) + torner (“turn”).

Words from the same roots

Old Frenchatorner all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.