in-to
See also: into, Into, INTO, intő, and -into
Middle English
Alternative forms
- into, inne to, jn to, jne to, inte
Etymology
From Old English intō, equivalent to in + to.
Preposition
in-to
- into
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 23-24:
- At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye- There came at nightfall into that hostelry
Some nine and twenty in a company
- There came at nightfall into that hostelry
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Descendants
- English: into
- Scots: intae
References
- “in-tọ̄̆, prep.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.