umbeset

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*umbisattjan“to set around, encompass”
2. Old English · inherited fromymbsettan“to set around, surround, beset, encompass”
3. Middle English · inherited fromumbesetten“to surround”
4. English todayumbeset

From Middle English umbesetten (“to surround”), from Old English ymbsettan (“to set around, surround, beset, encompass”), from Proto-West Germanic *umbisattjan (“to set around, encompass”); equivalent to um- + beset or umbe- + set. Compare also Old English ymbsittan (“to sit around, surround”), Dutch omzetten (“to convert, transpose”), German umsetzen (“to move to another place, convert, transform, transplant, adjust, rearrange”).