Etymology

et

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Middle English et ← Old English ǣt ← Proto-West Germanic *āt
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*ēt
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*āt
  3. Old English · inherited fromǣt
  4. Middle English · inherited fromet
  5. English todayet

From Middle English et, from Old English ǣt, from Proto-West Germanic *āt, from Proto-Germanic *ēt. Doublet of ate.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishet all →

ate

Old Englishǣt all →

eatate

Proto-West Germanic*āt all →

ateatate

Proto-Germanic*ēt all →

ate

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.