Etymology

overboil

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Today it means: To boil excessively. Full definition →

English boil ← Middle English boillen ← Old French boillir
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bew-der.?
  8. Proto-Indo-European*bʰel-der.?
  9. Latinbulla
  10. Latinbulliō
  11. Old Frenchboillir
  12. Middle Englishboillen
  13. Englishboil
  14. English todayoverboil

From over- + boil.

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