Etymograph

English

re-attach

From re- + attach.

A compound of re- + attach

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Germanic *stakô ‘pole, bar, stick, stake’

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Old French estache ‘stick’

Old French estachier ‘bind’

Old French atachier ‘to attach’

Middle English attachen

English attach

Today it means

verb To attach again.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “re-attach”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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