Etymology

reground

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Today it means: To ground again. Full definition →

English ground ← Middle English ground ← Old English grund
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*gʰrem-
  7. Proto-Germanic*grunduz
  8. Proto-West Germanic*grundu
  9. Old Englishgrund
  10. Middle Englishground
  11. Englishground
  12. English todayreground

From re- + ground.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.