Etymology

overgraze

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Today it means: to graze land excessively, to the detriment of the land and its vegetation Full definition →

English graze ← Middle English grasen ← Old English grasian
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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*gʰreh₁-
  8. Proto-Germanic*grasą
  9. Proto-Germanic*grasōną
  10. Proto-West Germanic*grasōn
  11. Old Englishgrasian
  12. Middle Englishgrasen
  13. Englishgraze
  14. English todayovergraze

From over- + graze.

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