Where does “breakee” come from?

breakee (English) comes from English break, from Middle English breken, from Old English brecan, from Proto-West Germanic brekan, from Proto-Germanic brekaną, from Proto-Indo-European bʰrēǵ- — to shine, shimmer.

breakee (English): One who is broken, or with whom a relationship is broken

Definitions

  1. One who is broken, or with whom a relationship is broken

Ancestry of “breakee”, step by step

breakee traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English break

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbreakTo separate into two or more pieces, to fracture...
2Middle Englishbrekento break
3Old Englishbrecanto break; to break into a place
4Proto-West Germanicbrekanto break
5Proto-Germanicbrekanąto break
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰrēǵ-to shine, shimmer

via English EE

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishEEInitialism of electrical engineering
2Cantonese噫—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰrēǵ- →Every word from Proto-Germanic brekaną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic brekan →