English

inshoot

From in + shoot.

A compound of in + shoot

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Germanic *in

Proto-West Germanic *in

Old English in

Middle English in ‘inside’

English in

Proto-Germanic *skeutaną ‘to shoot, dash’

Proto-West Germanic *skeutan ‘to shoot’

Old English scēotan ‘to shoot’

Middle English scheten

English shoot

Today it means

noun The act of shooting or moving rapidly inward, as a baseball that is pitched with a curve.

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