English

inbreathe

Inbreathe comes from Middle English inbrethen.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1894, A. J. Gordon: “Both the scribe and the Scripture, both the man…”

Formed from in- + breathe

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in ‘into’

English in-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰreh₁-

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Proto-West Germanic *brāþi ‘vapour, steam’

Old English brǣþ ‘steam, exhalation’

Middle English breth ‘breath’

Middle English brethen ‘to breathe, blow, exhale, odour’

Every English word from Middle English inbrethen

verb To breathe (something) in; imbreathe.

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