Etymology

misbrand

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Today it means: To make a mistake in branding a product or service, as by poor association of the name in a significant group of potential customers. Full definition →

English brand ← Middle English mys- ← Old English mis-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*meyth₂-
  3. Proto-Germanic*missaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*missa-
  5. Proto-West Germanic*missa-
  6. Old Englishmis-
  7. Middle Englishmys-
  8. Englishmis-
  9. Englishbrand
  10. English todaymisbrand

From mis- + brand.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.