English

impest

From im- + pest.

Formed from in- + pest

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Middle French peste ‘pestilence’

English pest

Today it means

verb To afflict with pestilence, in most cases the bubonic plague.

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