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Mistake

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means an error in action, judgment, or understanding
1
Stage 1 of 2
mistaka
Old Norse · medieval
"to take wrongly"
literally to take wrongly, from mis- (wrongly) and taka (to take)
2
Stage 2 of 2
mistake
English · 1300s
"an error in judgment or action"
settled as the English word for an error in judgment or action
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