Etymology

supersweet

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Today it means: Extremely sweet Full definition →

English sweet ← Middle English swete ← Old English swēte
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*sweh₂d-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*swéh₂dus
  9. Proto-Germanic*swōtuz
  10. Proto-West Germanic*swōtī
  11. Old Englishswēte
  12. Middle Englishswete
  13. Englishsweet
  14. English todaysupersweet

From super- + sweet.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.