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Permit

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to allow something to happen, or an official document granting permission
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Stage 1 of 2
permittere
Latin · ancient
"to send through, to allow"
to send through, to allow, from per- (through) and mittere (to send)
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Stage 2 of 2
permit
English · 1400s
"to allow something to happen"
settled as the English word for allowing something to happen
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