English

entertake

From enter- + take, after French entreprendre.

Formed from enter- + take

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros ‘inside, within’

Ancient Greek ἔντερον ‘intestine’

Old English tacan ‘to grasp’

Middle English taken ‘to take’

English take

Today it means

verb To entertain; to receive.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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