bathe

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*bʰeh₁-“to warm”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*baþōną“to bathe”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*baþōn
4. Old English · inherited frombaþian“to bathe, wash”
5. Middle English · inherited frombathen
6. English todaybathe

From Middle English bathen, from Old English baþian (“to bathe, wash”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþōn, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną (“to bathe”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian boadje (“to bathe”), Dutch baden (“to bathe”), German Low German baden (“to bathe”), German baden (“to bathe”), Danish bade (“to bathe”), Swedish bada (“to bathe”), Icelandic baða (“to bathe”). More at bath. Compare also bask.

Words from the same roots