Etymology

misguided

mis·guid·ed
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Today it means: Of a person: lacking proper guidance; misled or mistaken in one's actions or thinking. Full definition →

English misguide ← Middle English guiden ← Old French guider
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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. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*wéydeti
  11. Proto-Germanic*wītaną
  12. Frankish*wītan
  13. Old Occitanguidar
  14. Old Frenchguider
  15. Middle Englishguiden
  16. Englishguide
  17. Englishmisguide
  18. English todaymisguided

From misguide + -ed (suffix forming adjectives; and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs).

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