Etymology

backseat

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Today it means: To act in the manner of a back-seat driver or a back-seat gamer. Full definition →

English seat ← Middle English bak ← Old English bæc
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*baką
  3. Proto-West Germanic*bak
  4. Old Englishbæc
  5. Middle Englishbak
  6. Englishback
  7. Englishseat
  8. English todaybackseat

From back + seat.

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