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Middle English
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Etymology
From Old English intō, equivalent to in + to.
Preposition
in-to
- into
c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 23–24:At nyght was come into that hostelrye
Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye- There came at nightfall into that hostelry
Some nine and twenty in a company
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