The story
- Old English · inherited fromymbeþencan
- Middle English · inherited fromumbethenken
- English todayumbethink
From Middle English umbethenken, from Old English ymbeþencan, ymbþencan (“to think about, consider, deliberate”), from ymb- (“around”) + þencan (“to think”), equivalent to um- + bethink or umbe- + think.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.