Where does “hackneyed” come from?
Hackneyed comes from Middle English hackney with the past participle suffix -ed, from Old English with -od, from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European -eh₂tos and -tós.
hackneyed (English): Repeated too often; Let out for hire; simple past...
Definitions
- Repeated too often; Let out for hire; simple past...
Ancestry of “hackneyed”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ed | Used to form past tenses of verbs. In... |
| 2 | Middle English | -ed | Alternative form of -hede |
| 3 | Old English | -ed | formed into the likeness of, made into, shaped... |
Words derived from “hackneyed”