Etymograph

English

rewash

From re- + wash.

A compound of re- + wash

Proto-Italic *wre- ‘again’

English re-

Proto-Indo-European *wed- ‘wet’

Proto-Germanic *waskaną ‘to wash’

Proto-West Germanic *waskan ‘to wash’

Old English wascan ‘to wash’

Middle English wasshen ‘to wash’

English wash

Today it means

noun The act of washing something again

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “rewash”. 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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