Etymology

incase

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English case ← Middle English case ← Old Northern French casse
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The story

  1. Englishin-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kap-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*kapyéti
  4. Proto-Italic*kapjō
  5. Proto-Italic*kapsos
  6. Latincapsa
  7. Old Northern Frenchcasse
  8. Middle Englishcase
  9. Englishcase
  10. English todayincase

From in- + case.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.