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Where does “notify” come from?

Notify comes from Old French notifier, meaning to make known.

notify (English): To give notice; To make known; To make note of

Definitions

  1. To give notice; To make known; To make note of

Ancestry of “notify”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishnotifien—
2Old Frenchnotifier—

Words derived from “notify”

  • notifiable
  • notifier
  • denotify
  • notifiability
  • renotify
  • prenotify
  • notifieth
  • notifyee
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