Etymology

detrend

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Today it means: To manipulate (data) to remove overall long-term trends in order to emphasise other patterns. Full definition →

English trend ← Middle English trenden ← Old English trendan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*de
  2. Proto-Indo-European*déh₁
  3. Proto-Italic*dē
  4. Latindē
  5. Latindē-
  6. Englishde-
  7. Proto-West Germanic*trandijan
  8. Old Englishtrendan
  9. Middle Englishtrenden
  10. Englishtrend
  11. English todaydetrend

From de- + trend.

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