English

abeat

From a- + beat.

A compound of a- + beat

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Germanic *bautaną ‘to push’

Proto-West Germanic *bautan ‘to beat’

Old English bēatan ‘to beat’

Middle English beten ‘to hit or whip’

English beat

Today it means

adv Beating.

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