Etymology

offshoot

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Today it means: Something which shoots off or separates from a main stem or branch of a plant. Full definition →

English shoot ← Middle English schoten ← Old English sċēotan
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The story

  1. Englishoff-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kewd-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kéwdeti?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kewd-der.?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*sket-der.?
  6. Proto-Germanic*skuttōnąbf.?
  7. Proto-Germanic*skeutaną
  8. Proto-West Germanic*skeutan
  9. Old Englishsċēotan
  10. Middle Englishschoten
  11. Englishshoot
  12. English todayoffshoot

From off- + shoot.

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