Etymology

beaten

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Today it means: Defeated. Full definition →

English beat ← Middle English beten ← Old English bēatan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰew-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*bautaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*bautan
  4. Old Englishbēatan
  5. Middle Englishbeten
  6. Englishbeat
  7. English todaybeaten

From beat + -en.

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