Where does “recruiting” come from?

Recruiting comes from English recruit, derived from French recruter, from French recrue, traced back to Old French recreu and Old French recreistre.

recruiting (English): present participle of recruit; The process by...

Definitions

  1. present participle of recruit; The process by...

Ancestry of “recruiting”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishrecruitA supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a...
2Frenchrecruterto recruit
3GermanRekrutrecruit; A soldier of the lowest rank in the...
4Frenchrecreute—
5Frenchrecruerecruit
6Old Frenchrecreu—
7Old Frenchrecreistre—

Words derived from “recruiting”

Every word from Old French recreistre →