Where does “fit” come from?

fit (Middle English) comes from Old English fitt, from Proto-Germanic fitī, from Proto-Indo-European pedio-.

fit (Middle English): an adversary of equal power

Definitions

  1. an adversary of equal power

Ancestry of “fit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishfittsong; conflict
2Proto-Germanicfitīsection, segment, chapter
3Proto-Indo-Europeanpedio-—

Words derived from “fit”

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