English
hittee
From hit + -ee.
Formed from hit + -ee
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
Today it means
noun Someone who is hit, as opposed to doing the hitting.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hittee