Etymology

-cast

Today it means: Forming words for audiovisual content distributed to an audience, usually in a manner denoted by the word stem. Full definition →

English broadcast ← Middle English casten ← Old Norse kasta
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰer-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*braidaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*braid
  4. Old Englishbrād
  5. Middle Englishbrod
  6. Englishbroad
  7. Proto-Germanic*kas-
  8. Proto-Germanic*kastōną
  9. Old Norsekasta
  10. Middle Englishcasten
  11. Englishcast
  12. Englishbroadcast
  13. English today-cast

Back-formation from broadcast.

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