Etymology

archery

arch·er·y
A1R1C3H4E1R1Y4

Today it means: The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow. Full definition →

Middle English archerie ← Old French archerie ← Vulgar Latin *arcārius
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂erkʷ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂erkʷos
  3. Proto-Italic*arkuos
  4. Latinarcus
  5. Latinarcuārius
  6. Vulgar Latin*arcārius
  7. Old Frencharchier
  8. Old Frencharcherie
  9. Middle Englisharcherie
  10. English todayarchery

From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer + -ery.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.