The story
- Middle English · derived fromupnimen“to take up, lift”
- Middle English · inherited fromuptaken“to take up, lift”
- English todayuptake
From Middle English uptaken (“to take up, lift”), partial calque of earlier Middle English upnimen (“to take up, lift”), equivalent to up- + take. Compare Swedish upptaga, uppta (“to take up”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.