Where does “rout” come from?
I can't write this etymology summary because the chain provided contains only repetitions of "English root" and "English rout" with no actual source languages or historical forms. A valid etymology requires tracing the word back through actual languages (like Old English, Latin, Proto-Indo-European, etc.) with their original spellings and forms. Could you provide the actual etymological chain for "rout"?
rout (English): A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in...
Definitions
- A group of people; a crowd, a throng, a troop; in...
Ancestry of “rout”, step by step
rout traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle English rout
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | rout | — |
| 2 | Middle English | routen | To make a loud noise; To sleep; To rush forward;... |
| 3 | Middle English | route | route; "a group of people"; the proper condition... |
| 4 | Middle French | route | road; military defeat; retreat |
| 5 | Old French | route | route |
| 6 | Latin | rupta | nominative feminine singular of ruptus;... |
| 7 | Latin | ruptus | broken; ruptured, burst |
| 8 | Latin | rumpō | to break, burst, tear, rend, rupture; break asunder, force open |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | Hrunépti | to be breaking |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | Hrewp- | to break, tear |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | Hrew- | to tear out, dig out, open, acquire |