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Where does “plucketh” come from?

plucketh (English) comes from English pluck, from Middle English plucken, from Old English pluccian, from Proto-West Germanic *plukkōn, from Proto-Germanic plukkōną — to pluck, pull out or off.

plucketh (English): third-person singular simple present indicative...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative...

Ancestry of “plucketh”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishpluckTo pull something sharply; to pull something out;...
2Middle Englishplucken—
3Old Englishpluccian—
4Proto-West Germanic*plukkōn—
5Proto-Germanicplukkōnąto pluck, pull out or off
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