Etymology

abandonware

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Today it means: A software product that is no longer updated or maintained, or whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it. Full definition →

English softwarebf. ← Middle English ware ← Old English waru
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Latinad
  4. Old Frencha
  5. Proto-Germanic*bannaną
  6. Frankish*bann
  7. Old Frenchban
  8. Proto-Indo-European*deh₃-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*dóh₃r̥ ~ *déh₃n̥s
  10. Proto-Indo-European*déh₃nom
  11. Proto-Italic*dōnom
  12. Proto-Italic*dōnāō?
  13. Latindonāre
  14. Old Frenchdoner
  15. Old Frencha ban doner
  16. Old Frenchabandoner
  17. Middle Englishabandounen
  18. Englishabandon
  19. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  20. Proto-Germanic*samþuz /*samftuz
  21. Proto-West Germanic*samft(ī)
  22. Old Englishsōfte
  23. Middle Englishsofte
  24. Englishsoft
  25. Proto-Germanic*warō
  26. Proto-West Germanic*waru
  27. Old Englishwaru
  28. Middle Englishware
  29. Englishsoftwarebf.
  30. English todayabandonware

From abandon + -ware.

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