Where does “hit” come from?

hit (Swedish) comes from English hit, from Middle English hit, from Old English hit, from Proto-Germanic hit, from Proto-Indo-European ḱe- — demonstrative particle; here; this, here.

hit (Swedish): here; to this place, hither; hit; something very...

Definitions

  1. here; to this place, hither; hit; something very...

Ancestry of “hit”, step by step

hit traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English hit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishhit"To strike."; To manage to touch in the right...
2Middle EnglishhitThird-person singular neuter pronoun: it;...
3Old Englishhitit
4Proto-Germanichitnominative/accusative singular neuter of *hiz
5Proto-Indo-Europeanḱe-demonstrative particle; here; this, here

via Old Swedish hit

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Swedishhit
2Germanic*at
3Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂édto, at

Words derived from “hit

Every word from Proto-Indo-European ḱe-