Etymology

tetter

tet·ter
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Today it means: Any of various pustular skin conditions. Full definition →

Middle English teter ← Old English teter ← Proto-West Germanic *tetru
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tetter · noun, verb1

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*der-“to flay, split, crack”
  2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*dedru-
  3. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*tetruz
  4. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*tetru
  5. Old English · inherited fromteter
  6. Middle English · inherited fromteter
  7. English todaytetter

From Middle English teter, from Old English teter, tetr, tetra, from Proto-West Germanic *tetru, from Proto-Germanic *tetruz, *tetruhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dedru-, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to flay, split, crack”).

tetter · noun2

Corruption of potato.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*der- all →

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