Etymology

counterclaim

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Today it means: A suit filed by a defendant against a plaintiff secondary to the original complaint. Full definition →

English claim ← Middle English claimen ← Old French clamer
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Proto-Italic*komteros
  6. Proto-Italic*komterād
  7. Latincontrā
  8. Old Frenchcontre-
  9. Anglo-Normancountre-
  10. Middle Englishcounter-
  11. Englishcounter-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*kelh₁-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*kl̥h₁m-
  14. Proto-Italic*klām-
  15. Latinclamāre
  16. Old Frenchclamer
  17. Middle Englishclaimen
  18. Englishclaim
  19. English todaycounterclaim

From counter- + claim.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.