English
hit squad
From hit + squad.
Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- ‘to fall; fall upon; hit’
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Proto-Germanic *hittijaną ‘to come upon, find’
Old Norse hitta ‘to strike, meet’
Old English hittan ‘to meet with, come upon’
Middle English hitten ‘to hit’
English hit
Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwṓr ‘four’
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Vulgar Latin *exquadrō
Italian squadrare ‘to delimit in a square’
Italian squadra ‘square; team, squad’
French escouade ‘squad, squadron’
English squad
Today it means
noun A squad of assassins.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hit squad