Etymograph

English

regather

From re- + gather.

A compound of re- + gather

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *gʰedʰ- ‘to unite, assemble, keep’

Proto-West Germanic *gadurōn ‘to bring together, unite, gather’

Old English gaderian ‘to gather, assemble’

Middle English gaderen ‘to assemble, congregate’

English gather

Today it means

verb gather again, gather back together

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “regather”. 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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