deem

deem · verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dʰeh₁-“to set, put”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*dōmijaną“to judge, think”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*dōmijan
4. Old English · inherited fromdēman“to decide, decree, deem”
5. Middle English · inherited fromdēmen“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”
6. English todaydeem

From Middle English dēmen (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish and Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”), Finnish tuomita (“to judge”). It is also related to doom.

deem · noun²

1. Middle English · inherited fromdeme
2. English todaydeem

From Middle English deme, from the verb (see above).

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