Etymology

usest

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English use ← Middle English usen ← Old French user
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The story

  1. Latinūtī
  2. Early Medieval Latinūsō
  3. Early Medieval Latinūsāre
  4. Old Frenchuser
  5. Middle Englishusen
  6. Englishuse
  7. English todayusest

From use + -est.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.