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==Etymology==
− It is a shortening of Middle English acheten, eschete, from [[escheat]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) the legal reversion of property to the lord or state when the owner dies without heirs,^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021) from Old French eschete, literally that which falls to one, from escheoir, to fall due, from Late Latin *excadere, to fall away, from ex-, out, and cadere, to fall.^(Etymonline)
+ It is a shortening of [[enm|acheten]], eschete, from [[escheat]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) the legal reversion of property to the lord or state when the owner dies without heirs,^(Etymonline)^(Cresswell 2021) from [[fro|eschete]], literally that which falls to one, from [[m|fro|escheoir]], to fall due, from [[la-lat|*excadere]], to fall away, from ex-, out, and [[m|la-lat|cadere]], to fall.^(Etymonline)
==Earliest recorded meaning==