Etymology

eaten

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Today it means: Having been consumed by eating. Full definition →

Middle English eten ← Old English eten ← Proto-West Germanic *etan
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*etanaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*etan
  3. Old English · inherited frometen
  4. Middle English · inherited frometen
  5. English todayeaten

From Middle English eten, from Old English eten, from Proto-West Germanic *etan, from Proto-Germanic *etanaz; morphologically eat + -en.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englisheten all →

eatettin

Proto-West Germanic*etan all →

eat

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.