Etymology

treeify

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Today it means: To turn into a tree. Full definition →

English tree ← Middle English tre ← Old English trēow
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dóru
  2. Proto-Germanic*trewą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*treu
  4. Old Englishtrēow
  5. Middle Englishtre
  6. Englishtree
  7. English todaytreeify

From tree + -ify.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.