English

relabel

From re- + label.

A compound of re- + label

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *leb- ‘blade’

Proto-Germanic *lappǭ

Frankish *lappā ‘torn piece of cloth’

Old French label ‘strip of fabric’

Middle English label ‘narrow band’

English label

Today it means

verb To label again; to apply a new label to.

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