Where does “smashed” come from?

Smashed derives from Old English -od, a past participle suffix from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European -tós, a suffix forming adjectives denoting a completed state.

smashed (English): Drunk; simple past tense and past participle of...

Definitions

  1. Drunk; simple past tense and past participle of...

Ancestry of “smashed”, 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...
Every word from Old English -ed →Every word from English -ed →Every word from Middle English -ed →