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

  1. Repeated too often; Let out for hire; simple past...

Ancestry of “hackneyed”, 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 “hackneyed”

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