Etymology

pastify

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Today it means: to make something appear to belong exclusively to the past Full definition →

Proto-Italic *θakos ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- ← English past
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The story

  1. Englishpast
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  3. Proto-Italic*θakos
  4. English todaypastify

From past (adjective) + -ify, literally “to make past”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.