parget

The story

1. Latin · derived fromiactō
2. Latin · derived fromper-
3. Old French · derived frompargeter, parjeter“to throw about”
4. Middle English · inherited frompargetten
5. English todayparget

From Middle English pargetten, from Old French pargeter, parjeter (“to throw about”), from par- (intensive prefix) (from Latin per-) + jeter (“to throw”) (from Latin iactō, frequentative of iaciō). The noun is derived from the verb.

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