Put
Old English (recorded only in the verbal noun putung ), of unknown origin; compare with dialect pote ‘to push, thrust’ (an early sense of the verb put ).
wiktionary
From Middle English putten, puten, poten, from Old English putian, *pūtian("to push, put out"; attested by derivative putung(“pushing, impulse, instigation, urging”)) and potian(“to push, thrust, strike, butt, goad”), both from Proto-Germanic *putōną(“to stick, stab”), which is of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bud-(“to shoot, sprout”), which would make it cognate with Sanskrit बुन्द(bundá, “arrow”), Lithuanian budė, and budis(“mushroom, fungus”). Compare also related Old English pȳtan(“to push, poke, thrust, put out (the eyes)”). Cognate with Dutch poten(“to set, plant”), Danish putte(“to put”), Swedish putta, pötta, potta(“to strike, knock, push gently, shove, put away”), Norwegian putte(“to set, put”), Norwegian pota(“to poke”), Icelandic pota(“to poke”), Dutch peuteren(“to pick, poke around, dig, fiddle with”).
Origin unknown. Perhaps related to Welsh pwt, itself possibly borrowed from English butt(“stub, thicker end”).
Old French pute.
etymonline
put (v.)
Middle English putten, from late Old English *putian, "to thrust, push, shove" (someone or something; a sense now obsolete), also "to move or a thing physically so as to place it in some situation," implied in putung "instigation, an urging," literally "a putting;" related to pytan "put out, thrust out" (of eyes), probably from a Germanic stem that also produced Danish putte "to put," Swedish dialectal putta; Middle Dutch pote "scion, plant," Dutch poten "to plant," Old Norse pota "to poke."
Obsolete past tense form putted is attested 14c.-15c. From c. 1300 as "to hurl, cast, propel," especially "to throw with an upward and forward motion of the arm" (Will. Putstan is attested as a name from 1296). From mid-14c. in the figurative sense of "bring (someone) into some specified state or condition;" late 14c. as "subject (someone to something)," as in put to death, c. 1400; put to shame, mid-15c. From mid-14c. as "make a declaration, express in speech or writing," hence "express or state (in a particular way)," 1690s, also "propose or place before someone for consideration."
To put (something) back is from 1530s as "to hinder, delay;" 1816 as "restore to the original place or position." To put (something) down "end by force or authority" (a rebellion, etc.) is from mid-14c. To put upon (someone) "play a trick on, impose on" is from 1690s. To put up with "tolerate, accept, bear or suffer without protest or resentment" (1755) is perhaps from put up "to take up" (one's lodgings, etc.), 1727. To put (someone) up in the transitive sense of "lodge and entertain" is by 1766. To put (someone) on "deceive" is from 1958. To put upon (someone) "play a trick on, deceive, impose on" is from 1690s.
put (n.)
c. 1300, "act of throwing a stone or other heavy weight overhand as a test of strength," from put (v.). General meaning "act of putting" is from early 15c. Also compare putt (n.).
