English

refight

From re- + fight.

A compound of re- + fight

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- ‘to comb’

Proto-Germanic *fehtaną ‘to comb’

Proto-West Germanic *fehtan ‘to fight’

Old English feohtan ‘to fight’

Middle English fighten ‘to fight’

English fight

Today it means

verb To fight again.

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