Etymology

redraw

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Today it means: To draw again. Full definition →

English draw ← Middle English drawen ← Old English dragan
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*dʰregʰ-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*dʰrógʰ-e-ti
  8. Proto-Germanic*draganą
  9. Proto-West Germanic*dragan
  10. Old Englishdragan
  11. Middle Englishdrawen
  12. Englishdraw
  13. English todayredraw

From re- + draw.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.