Etymology

overhand

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Today it means: Executed with the hand brought forward and down from above the shoulders. Full definition →

English hand ← Middle English hond ← Old English hand
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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-Germanic*handuz
  8. Proto-West Germanic*handu
  9. Old Englishhand
  10. Middle Englishhond
  11. Englishhand
  12. English todayoverhand

From over- + hand.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.