English

hitwoman

From hit + woman, based on earlier hitman.

A compound of hit + woman

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

Old English wīfmann

Middle English womman ‘a female adult person’

English woman

Today it means

noun The female equivalent of a hitman; a female assassin for hire.

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

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