Hatched
/hætʃt/noun
Past tense and past participle of hatch: to emerge from an egg, or to devise a plan.
Did you know?The verb hatch may come from a Germanic root connected to opening or splitting, and in English it later took on the eerie sense of secretly devising a plot—basically, ideas can be “born” like creatures from an egg.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*kakjaną
“to make open, to split, to hatch”
Old English
OE
hæccian
“to hatch, to bring forth from an egg”
Middle English
ME
hacchen
“to hatch; later, to devise or contrive”
14th Century
English
hatche
“to emerge from an egg; to bring forth”
Modern English
English
hatched
“emerged from an egg; devised secretly”