Where does “arrange” come from?
Arrange comes from Middle English arengen, from Old French arengier, from Old French reng meaning row or rank, from Frankish hring and rank, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European (s)ker- and h₃reǵ-.
arrange (English): To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly...
Definitions
- To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly...
Ancestry of “arrange”, step by step
arrange traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German arrangieren
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | arrangieren | to arrange; to come to an agreement |
| 2 | German | -ieren | Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found... |
| 3 | French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs |
| 4 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 5 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 6 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 7 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 12 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |