evitar

/ebiˈtaɾ/ · A2 · verb

to avoid, to bypass, to evade, to circumvent, to dodge, to shun, to eschew

evitar = Latin e- (out) + vitare (shun); English inevitable = cannot evitar

From Latin evitare, to shun. English kept it inside inevitable: something in-evit-able is un-avoid-able. Strip the in- and -able and the core evit- is the Spanish verb. Spanish b/v sound alike, so it is said eh-bee-TAR.

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