entertake

verb

Etymology

From enter- + take, after French entreprendre.

  1. derived from *teh₂g-✻ — “to touch, take”
  2. inherited from *tēkaną✻ — “to touch”
  3. derived from taka — “to touch, take”
  4. inherited from tacan — “to grasp, touch”
  5. inherited from taken — “to take, lay hold of, grasp, strike”
  6. formed as entertake — “enter- + take”

Definitions

  1. To entertain

    To entertain; to receive.

    • And with more myld aspect those two to entertake.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for entertake. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA