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Where does “pocketed” come from?

pocketed (English) comes from English -ed, from Middle English -ed, from Old English -ed — formed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

pocketed (English): simple past tense and past participle of pocket

Definitions

  1. simple past tense and past participle of pocket

Ancestry of “pocketed”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
2Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
3Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

Words derived from “pocketed”

  • unpocketed
  • multipocketed
Every word from Old English -ed →