Where does “overextend” come from?
overextend (English) comes from English extend, from Middle English extenden, from Old French estendre, from Latin extendere, from Latin extendo, from Latin ex-, from Latin e, from Latin ex — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
overextend (English): To expand or extend to an excessive degree,...
Definitions
- To expand or extend to an excessive degree,...
Ancestry of “overextend”, step by step
overextend traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English extend
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | extend | To increase in extent; To possess a certain... |
| 2 | Middle English | extenden | to extend |
| 3 | Old French | estendre | to stretch, extend or spread |
| 4 | Latin | extendere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 5 | Latin | extendo | I stretch or thrust out; I extend, prolong or... |
| 6 | Latin | ex- | out, away; throughout; thoroughly |
| 7 | Latin | e | The name of the letter "E"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 9 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 10 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 11 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 16 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 17 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
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- | — |