Etymograph

English

rejoinder

Rejoinder comes from Middle French rejoindre, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *yewg- ‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yewg-‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’root as named · steps between not traced
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600rejoindre
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rejoinder
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1731same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yewg-‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’root as named · steps between not traced
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600rejoindre
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rejoinder
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1731same form

Earliest quotation: 1731, Simon Wagstaff pseudonym; Jonathan Swift, An Introduction to the Following Treatise: “I have passed perhaps more time than any other…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *yewg- ‘to join, to yoke, to tie together’

join, yoga, junction, adjunct, yogi, yoke, jodi, juncture, conjugate, jugular, conjugation, subjugate, zygote, yojana, yuga, 41 more

Today it means

noun The defendant's answer to the replication.

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Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *yewg- / rejoinder

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