Where does “hit” come from?
Hit comes from Middle English hitten, Old English hit, and Proto-Germanic hit, which derive from the Proto-Indo-European root ḱe-.
hit (English): "To strike."; To manage to touch in the right...
Definitions
- "To strike."; To manage to touch in the right...
Ancestry of “hit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | hit | Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it;... |
| 2 | Old English | hit | it |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | hit | nominative/accusative singular neuter of *hiz |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe- | demonstrative particle; here; this, here |