Etymology

withtake

W4I1T1H4T1A1K5E1

Today it means: To rebuke; reprimand. Full definition →

Middle English withtaken
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Middle English · derived fromwithnimen
  2. Middle English · inherited fromwithtaken
  3. English todaywithtake

From Middle English withtaken, partial calque of earlier Middle English withnimen; equivalent to with- + take.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.