Etymology

offspring

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Today it means: A person's daughter or son; a person's child. Full definition →

Middle English ofspring ← Old English ofspring
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  1. Old English · inherited fromofspring“offspring, descendants, posterity”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromofspring
  3. English todayoffspring

From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.