in-to
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Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English intō, equivalent to in + to.
Preposition[edit]
in-to
- into
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 23–24:
- At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye- There came at nightfall into that hostelry
Some nine and twenty in a company
- There came at nightfall into that hostelry
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “in-tọ̄̆, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.