Resowed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To plant seeds again in a field or area where crops have already been sown
2. The act of replanting seeds in a piece of land after a previous sowing
3. To place seeds once more into soil, typically to replace or supplement an earlier planting

Etymology: "Resowed" is the past tense and past participle of "resow," which the source builds from the prefix "re-" (again) and "sow," so the word's history is essentially the history of "sow." That verb descends from Old English "sāwan," and it reaches back through Proto-Germanic and the very ancient Proto-Indo-European root "*seh₁-," meaning to sow seed. The prefix "re-" came into English from Old French, which had taken it from Latin, where it already meant "back" or "again." The combination is transparent: to resow is simply to sow a second time, which is why the verb is so direct. Its earliest uses would have been agricultural, describing a farmer replanting a field after a failed crop or a sparse sowing. The prefix itself is among the most productive in English, attaching to hundreds of verbs, so "resow" follows a pattern many speakers use without thinking about it.

Synonyms: reseeded, replanted