English
interchange
Interchange comes from Old French entrechange.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400entrechange
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1592interchange
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400entrechange
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1592interchange
Earliest quotation: c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]: “I shall interchange / My waned state for Henry's…”
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’
Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’
Latin inter ‘between’
English inter-
Proto-Celtic *kambos ‘twisted, crooked, bent’
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Latin cambium ‘exchange’
Latin cambiō ‘to exchange, barter’
Old French changier ‘to change’
Middle English changen
English change
Every English word from Old French entrechange
Today it means
verb to switch (each of two things)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French entrechange / interchange