dompt

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*demh₂-“to domesticate, tame”
2. Latin · derived fromdomitāre
3. Old French · derived fromdonter
4. Middle French · derived fromdompter
5. French · borrowed fromdompter“to break in, tame (an animal); to subdue, suppress”
6. English todaydompt

Borrowed from French dompter (“to break in, tame (an animal); to subdue, suppress”), from Middle French dompter, from Old French donter, danter, from Latin domitāre, the present active infinitive of domitō (“to tame”), from domō (“to break in, tame; to conquer, subdue, vanquish”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”)) + -itō (suffix forming frequentative verbs). The English word is a doublet of daunt.

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