Etymology

bizspeak

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Today it means: The jargon used in business. Full definition →

English biz ← Middle English bisynes ← Old English bisiġnes
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*bisīg
  2. Old Englishbisiġ
  3. Old Englishbisiġnes
  4. Middle Englishbisynes
  5. Englishbusinessclip.
  6. Englishbiz
  7. English todaybizspeak

From biz + -speak.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.