Etymology

babyship

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Today it means: The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English baby ← Middle English baby
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰā-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bō-redup.
  3. Proto-Germanic*babô
  4. Proto-West Germanic*babō
  5. Old English*baba
  6. Middle Englishbabe
  7. Middle Englishbaby
  8. Englishbaby
  9. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  10. English todaybabyship

From baby + -ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.