Morpheme
Cheat
Type
free base
Denotation
violate rules, take property, literally fall away from
Etymology
(1) Middle English acheten, variant of escheten; Old French escheat, from escheoir; Late Latin *excadere; Latin ex- + cadere; (2) Middle English chete, from achete, escheat, eschete; Anglo-Norman eschete and Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit, from escheoir; Late Latin *excadēre; Latin ex- + cadere
Evidence
anticheat, becheat, cheat, cheatable, cheated, cheatee, cheater, cheatery, cheatgrass, cheatier, cheatiest, cheating, cheatless, cheatlike, cheatline, cheats, cheaty, cybercheat, outcheat, uncheatable, windcheater
Notes
cheat clipped from escheat
Doublet
Escheat
See Also
es-, Cade, Cide, -at(e) [-ate, -at]
