Etymograph

English

remask

From re- + mask.

Formed from re- + mask

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *mosgʷ- ‘netting, mesh, knot, loop’

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Proto-West Germanic *maskā ‘mesh, net’

Medieval Latin masca

Italian maschera ‘mask, disguise’

Middle French masque ‘a covering to hide or protect the face’

English mask

Today it means

verb To mask again.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “remask”. 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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