Etymology

battlewagon

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Today it means: A heavily armed combat vehicle; a tank. Full definition →

English wagon ← Middle Dutch wagen ← Old Dutch *wagan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-
  2. Latinbattuō
  3. Late Latinbattālia
  4. Old Frenchbataille
  5. Middle Englishbatayle
  6. Englishbattle
  7. Proto-Indo-European*weǵʰ-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*wóǵʰnos
  9. Proto-Germanic*wagnaz
  10. Proto-West Germanic*wagn
  11. Old Dutch*wagan
  12. Middle Dutchwagen
  13. Englishwagon
  14. English todaybattlewagon

From battle + wagon.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.