Etymology

reweigh

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Today it means: To weigh again; to weigh something that has already been weighed. Full definition →

English weigh ← Middle English weyen ← Old English wegan
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*weǵʰ-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*wéǵʰeti
  8. Proto-Germanic*weganą
  9. Proto-West Germanic*wegan
  10. Old Englishwegan
  11. Middle Englishweyen
  12. Englishweigh
  13. English todayreweigh

From re- + weigh.

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