Meanings
- idiomaticobsoleteA prefix of Old English origin meaning "again", "back", "anew", equivalent to re-.
eddish, eddy, edgrow, edgrowth, ednew, edquicken
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*éti
- Proto-Germanic*idi-
- Proto-West Germanic*id-
- Old Englished-“again, re-”
- Middle Englished-
- Englished-
From Middle English ed-, from Old English ed- (“again, re-”), from Proto-West Germanic *id-, from Proto-Germanic *idi-, *idi, *ida (“back, backwards, again”), from Proto-Indo-European *éti. Cognate with Dutch et-, German dialectal it- (“again, back”), Icelandic ið- (“again, back”), Gothic 𐌹𐌳- (id-, “again, back”), Welsh ad-, Welsh ed- (“again, back”), Latin et (“and”), Latin at (“but, moreover”).
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