Where does “overattend” come from?
overattend (English) comes from English attend, from Middle English attenden, from Old French atendre, from Latin attendō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
overattend (English): To attend too much; to pay too much attention
Definitions
- To attend too much; to pay too much attention
Ancestry of “overattend”, step by step
overattend traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English attend
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | attend | To intend (something) |
| 2 | Middle English | attenden | to attend |
| 3 | Old French | atendre | to wait |
| 4 | Latin | attendō | to pay attention, attend (to), direct the attention towards |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English over
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | over | Discontinued; ended or concluded; Thoroughly;... |
| 2 | Middle English | over | riverbank, seashore, brink |
| 3 | Old English | ōfer | riverbank, seashore, brink, edge, margin, border |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | obar | over, above |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | uber | over; over, above |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |