English

can-do

Confident and willing to get a job done.

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    Origin

    From can + do.

    From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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    • partEnglishcan “To know how to.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishcunnen “to try”
        • inheritedOld Englishcunnan “to know how to, be able to”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishcanne
        • inheritedOld Englishcanne “glass, container, cup, jar”
    • partEnglishdo “A syntactic marker in a question whose main verb is not another auxiliary verb or be.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishdon “to put on”
        • inheritedOld Englishdōn
        • inheritedOld Englishdōn on
      • derivedLatinDominus “The Lord”

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