Morpheme
Peat
Type
bound base
Denotation
ask, beg, request, look for, inquire, entreat
Etymology
Middle English -pēten; Old French -peter and Latin petere
Evidence
decarepeat, homorepeat, repeat, repeated, repeatedly, repeater, repeating, repeats, unrepeated
Notes
<ea> represents the [ɛ] of Old French but the vowel shifted to [i] in Modern English
