Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. · To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. · To resolve; to unfold; to clear. · To become untied or loosed.
From Middle English untien, unteyen, untyȝen, untiȝen, from Old English untīġan (“to untie”), equivalent to un- + tie.
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