English

preseed

From pre- + seed.

A compound of pre- + seed

Proto-Italic *prai ‘before’

Proto-Italic *prai- ‘pre-, before’

English pre-

Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- ‘to sow’

Proto-Germanic *sēdą

Proto-West Germanic *sād

Old English sēd ‘seed’

Middle English seed

English seed

Today it means

verb To seed in advance.

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