Where does “exchange” come from?
Exchange comes from Middle English eschaungen, from Old French eschanger, derived from Latin excambio, a verb formed from the prefix ex-.
exchange (English): An act of exchanging or trading; A place for...
Definitions
- An act of exchanging or trading; A place for...
Ancestry of “exchange”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | eschaungen | To exchange or swap |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | eschaungier | — |
| 3 | Old French | eschanger | Alternative form of eschangier |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | excambiare | present active infinitive of *excambiō;... |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |