English
to-do
A fuss made over something.
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Origin
From to + do, formed on analogy with ado. Compare affair.
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Lineage
- partEnglishto “A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.”
- inheritedMiddle Englishto
- inheritedOld Englishtā
- inheritedOld Englishtō
- borrowedHindiतो
- inheritedMiddle Englishto
- 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”
- inheritedMiddle Englishdon “to put on”
Sources
- Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wiktionary: to-do