Etymology

hatchday

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Today it means: The anniversary of the day on which an animal hatched from an egg. Full definition →

English day ← Middle English day ← Old English dæġ
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The story

  1. Englishhatch
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰegʷʰ-?
  3. Proto-Germanic*dagaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*dag
  5. Old Englishdæġ
  6. Middle Englishday
  7. Englishday
  8. English todayhatchday

From hatch + day.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.