The story
- Middle English · inherited fromgingen
- English todayrejuvenate
From re- (“again”) + Latin iuvenis (“young”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Old French rejuvener. Displaced native Middle English gingen, from Old English *ġinġan (literally “to make young”), equivalent to Old English ġeong + Old English -an.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.