Where does “overbroad” come from?
I need to flag an issue with this chain before writing the sentence: the chain appears malformed or circular, with "French bride" repeating multiple times and no clear etymological progression. The entries don't trace a coherent path from English "overbroad" backward through earlier forms.
I cannot write an accurate one-sentence origin summary without a valid, linear etymological chain showing how "overbroad" developed from earlier language stages. Could you provide a corrected chain that shows the actual etymological relationships?
overbroad (English): Too broad
Ancestry of “overbroad”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | Over- | — |
| 2 | English | over | Discontinued; ended or concluded; Thoroughly;... |
| 3 | Middle English | over | riverbank, seashore, brink |
| 4 | Old English | ōfer | riverbank, seashore, brink, edge, margin, border |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | obar | over, above |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | uber | over; over, above |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | upér | above; over |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | upó | under, below |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃ewp- | — |
Words derived from “overbroad”