Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Parting: forming verbs that involve cleaving, breaking, or sundering. · To do excessively. · Completely. · Moving.
From Middle English to-, from Old English tō-, te- (“apart, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *tō-, *tuʀ-, *twiʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz- (“apart, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“two-ways, in twain”).
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