Where does “baste” come from?

Baste comes from Old French bastir, from Old French basser, from Frankish bastijan, from Latin baccinum, from Latin bacca, from Latin baca, from Proto-Celtic baskis, from Proto-Indo-European bʰask-.

baste (English): To sew with long or loose stitches, as for...

Definitions

  1. To sew with long or loose stitches, as for...

Ancestry of “baste”, step by step

baste traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English basten

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishbasten—
2Old Frenchbassermoisten, soak
3Old Frenchbacinbasin
4Vulgar Latinbaccinumwide bowl
5Late Latinbaccawine jug

via Old French bastir

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchbastirto build; to construct
2Vulgar Latin*bastīre—
3Frankishbastijanto sew, weave; to weave, plait, sew; to plait,...

Words derived from “baste”

Every word from Late Latin bacca →Every word from Vulgar Latin baccinum →Every word from Old French bacin →