assignen

Catalan

Verb

assignen

1. third-person plural present indicative of assignar

Middle English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Latin ad

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.

Proto-Italic *seknom

Latin signum

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin signō

Latin assignōlbor.

Old French assignerbor.

Middle English assignen

Borrowed from Old French assigner.

Verb

assignen

1. to assign, allot

Descendants

• English: assign

References

• “assign, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “assīgnen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.