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Where does “reassembly” come from?

Reassembly comes from English re- plus assembly, with the prefix re- tracing back through Middle English re-, Old French re-, and Latin re-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád.

reassembly (English): The process of assembling something again

Definitions

  1. The process of assembling something again

Ancestry of “reassembly”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishassemblyA set of pieces that work together in unison as a...
2Middle Englishassemblee—
3Anglo-Normanasembleean assembly
4Old Frenchasembleean assembly
5Old Frenchasemblerto collect up; to get together
6Latinassimulō—
7Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
8Latinīn-—
9Latinîn—
10Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
11Proto-Italicenin
12Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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