Etymology

rename

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Today it means: To give a new name to. Full definition →

English name ← Middle English name ← Old English nama
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₁nómn̥
  7. Proto-Germanic*namô
  8. Proto-West Germanic*namō
  9. Old Englishnama
  10. Middle Englishname
  11. Englishname
  12. English todayrename

From re- + name.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.