Etymology

reassign

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Today it means: To assign again or anew. Full definition →

English assign ← Middle English assignen ← Old French assigner
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  7. Proto-Italic*ad
  8. Proto-Italic*ad-
  9. Latinad-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
  11. Proto-Italic*segnom
  12. Proto-Italic*segnāō
  13. Latinsignō
  14. Latinassignō
  15. Old Frenchassigner
  16. Middle Englishassignen
  17. Englishassign
  18. English todayreassign

From re- + assign.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.