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Transfer

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means to move or pass something from one place, person, or condition to another
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Stage 1 of 2
transferre
Latin · ancient
"to carry across"
to carry across, from trans- (across) and ferre (to carry)
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Stage 2 of 2
transfer
English · 1400s
"to move something from one place, person, or use to another"
settled as the English word for moving something from one place to another
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