Etymology

unbreak

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Today it means: To do the inverse or opposite of breaking: to mend, restore, heal, or fix; to make no longer broken. Full definition →

English break ← Middle English breken ← Old English brecan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
  3. Proto-Germanic*anda-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*anda-
  5. Old Englishand-
  6. Old Englishon-
  7. Middle Englishon-
  8. Englishun-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreg-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrégeti
  11. Proto-Germanic*brekaną
  12. Proto-West Germanic*brekan
  13. Old Englishbrecan
  14. Middle Englishbreken
  15. Englishbreak
  16. English todayunbreak

From un- + break, popularised in songs sung by The Alarm ("Unbreak the Promise") and Toni Braxton ("Un-Break My Heart").

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.