Etymology

ed-

Today it means: A prefix of Old English origin meaning "again", "back", "anew", equivalent to re-. Full definition →

Middle English ed- ← Old English ed- ← Proto-West Germanic *id-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*éti
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*idi-
  3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*id-
  4. Old English · inherited fromed-“again, re-”
  5. Middle English · inherited fromed-
  6. English todayed-

From Middle English ed-, from Old English ed- (“again, re-”), from Proto-West Germanic *id-, from Proto-Germanic *idi-, *idi, *ida (“back, backwards, again”), from Proto-Indo-European *éti. Cognate with Dutch et-, German dialectal it- (“again, back”), Icelandic ið- (“again, back”), Gothic 𐌹𐌳- (id-, “again, back”), Welsh ad-, Welsh ed- (“again, back”), Latin et (“and”), Latin at (“but, moreover”).

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