The story
- Latin · derived fromsupplantō“trip up”
- Old French · derived fromsupplanter
- Middle English · inherited fromsupplanten
- English todaysupplant
From Middle English supplanten, supplaunten, from Old French supplanter, from Latin supplantō (“trip up”), from sub (“from below, under”) + planta (“sole”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.