paint

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*peyḱ-
2. Proto-Indo-European*pinéḱti
3. Proto-Italic*pingō
4. Latinpingō
5. Latinpictus
6. Vulgar Latin*pinctus
7. Frenchpeint
8. Old Frenchpeintier
9. Middle Englishpeynten
10. English todaypaint

From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English tēafor (“paint”), *tīefran (“to paint”); and Old English mētan (“to paint”) and mǣlan (“to paint, mark with colour”).

Words from the same roots