Etymology

puft

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Today it means: To puff. Full definition →

Middle English poften ← Old English *puffettan ← Proto-West Germanic *puffattjan
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*puffattjan“to puff repeatedly, pant”
  2. Old English · inherited from*puffettan
  3. Middle English · inherited frompoften“to puff, pant”
  4. English todaypuft

From Middle English poften (“to puff, pant”), from Old English *puffettan, from Proto-West Germanic *puffattjan (“to puff repeatedly, pant”), equivalent to puff + -t.

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