Etymology

rewash

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Today it means: The act of washing something again Full definition →

English wash ← Middle English waschen ← Old English wascan
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*wed-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*wodsḱéti
  8. Proto-Germanic*waskaną
  9. Proto-West Germanic*waskan
  10. Old Englishwascan
  11. Middle Englishwaschen
  12. Englishwash
  13. English todayrewash

From re- + wash.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.