reach back to

reach back (in)to something

to extend back into a particular period in time. This policy reaches back into the last century. Our way of making fine candies reaches back to the recipes used by the founder of the company.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lyssa	LIS-ə	English
Khalida	-	Arabic
Hamida	-	Arabic
Sylvia	SIL-vee-ə (English), SUYL-vee-ah (Finnish)	English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German
Harshad	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi
Eliezer	el-ie-EE-zər (English)	Biblical, Hebrew, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek