toput

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*putōną“to stick, stab”
2. Old English · inherited frompytan“to push, shove”
3. Middle English · inherited fromputten“to push, shove, put”
4. English todaytoput

From Middle English putten (“to push, shove, put”), from Old English pytan (“to push, shove”), from Proto-Germanic *putōną (“to stick, stab”), equivalent to to- + put.

Words from the same roots