English
make-debate
From make + debate.
Proto-Germanic *makaz ‘fit, suitable, agreeable’
Proto-West Germanic *mak ‘fit, suitable’
Proto-West Germanic *makōn ‘to make suitable; to build, make’
Old English macian ‘to make, build, work’
Middle English maken
English make
Latin battuō ‘to beat; to fence’
Romanic desbattere
Old French debatre ‘to fight, contend’
Middle English debaten
English debate
Today it means
noun Someone who instigates quarrels.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
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