Where does “hideaway” come from?
Hideaway comes from hide and away, with hide tracing through Middle English hiden and Old English hȳdan to Proto-Indo-European (s)kew-.
hideaway (English): a hiding place, somewhere one can go to get away...
Definitions
- a hiding place, somewhere one can go to get away...
Ancestry of “hideaway”, step by step
hideaway traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English hide
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | hide | To put in a place where it will be harder to... |
| 2 | Middle English | hide | hide; concealment; hiding spot |
| 3 | Middle English | hiden | to conceal, hide; to cover up, wrap up, surround;... |
| 4 | Old English | hȳdan | to hide, conceal, preserve; to conceal; hide |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | hūdijaną | to hide, conceal |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kewdʰ- | to cover, encase; to hide, conceal; to cover,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kew- | to caw, to howl; to cover, hide; to cover, hide,... |