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- Latin · derived fromperīre“pass away, perish”
- Old French · derived fromperir
- Middle English · inherited fromperishen
- English todayperish
From Middle English perishen, borrowed from Old French perir (via the stem periss- used in various conjugations), from Latin perīre (“pass away, perish”), from per (“through”) + īre (“pass, go”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.