Etymology

cityship

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Today it means: A spacecraft which contains an entire city. Full definition →

English ship ← Middle English schip ← Old English scip
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱey-
  2. Proto-Italic*keiwis
  3. Latinceivis
  4. Latinceivitās
  5. Late Latincīvitātem (city)
  6. Old Frenchcitet
  7. Middle Englishcite
  8. Englishcity
  9. Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
  10. Proto-Indo-European*skey-der.?
  11. Proto-Germanic*skipą
  12. Proto-West Germanic*skip
  13. Old Englishscip
  14. Middle Englishschip
  15. Englishship
  16. English todaycityship

From city + ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.