Etymology

emit

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Today it means: To send out or give off. Full definition →

Latin ēmittō ← Old Latin mītō ← Proto-Italic *meitō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  3. Proto-Italic*eks
  4. Latinex
  5. Latinex-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
  7. Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*méyth₂eti
  9. Proto-Italic*meitō
  10. Old Latinmītō
  11. Latinmittō
  12. Latinēmittō
  13. English todayemit

Borrowed from Latin ēmittō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.