Where does “disengaged” come from?

Disengaged comes from Middle French désengager, composed of the prefix dés- and engager, ultimately tracing through Old English -od and Proto-Germanic -ōdaz to Proto-Indo-European roots -eh₂tos and -tós.

disengaged (English): simple past tense and past participle of...

Definitions

  1. simple past tense and past participle of...

Ancestry of “disengaged”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
2Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
3Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

Words derived from “disengaged”

Every word from Old English -ed →Every word from English -ed →Every word from Middle English -ed →