English

making

Making comes from Middle English making, and goes back to Old English macung.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

Formed from make + -ing

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

Every English word from Old English macung

noun The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.

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