Etymology

overcommit

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Today it means: To make excessive commitments, either beyond one's ability or beyond what is reasonable Full definition →

English commit ← Middle English committen ← Latin committō
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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. Latincommittō
  8. Middle Englishcommitten
  9. Englishcommit
  10. English todayovercommit

From over- + commit.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.