Where does tobreak come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

tobreak

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: to-break
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Meaning

verb

To break completely; crush.

Obsolete

verb

To break apart; break in pieces.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all tobrake his skull."

Etymology

From Middle English tobreken (“to break apart, break in pieces, shatter”), from Old English tōbrecan, tebrecan (“to break in pieces, break apart”), from Proto-West Germanic *tebrekan, from Proto-Germanic *tebrekaną (“to break apart”), equivalent to to- (“apart, in pieces”) + break. Cognate with Old Saxon tebrekan (“to break apart”), German Low German tobreken (“to break, shatter, smash”), Middle Dutch tebreken (“to break apart, shatter”), German zerbrechen (“to break apart, shatter, smash”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: tobreken, tōbrecan, *tebrekan, *tebrekaną

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

tobreaks (present, singular) tobreaking (participle, present) tobroke (past) tobroken (participle, past) tobrake (alternative) to-break (alternative) to break (alternative)

Phrases

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