Etymology

creamware

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Today it means: Cream-coloured earthenware produced chiefly from 1750 to 1820 by the potters of Staffordshire, England Full definition →

Middle English ware ← Old English waru ← Proto-West Germanic *waru
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)krama-
  2. Proto-Celtic*krammen
  3. Gaulish*cramabor.?
  4. Late Latincrāmum
  5. Ecclesiastical Latinchrisma
  6. Old Frenchcresme
  7. Middle Englishcreme
  8. Englishcream
  9. Proto-Germanic*warō
  10. Proto-West Germanic*waru
  11. Old Englishwaru
  12. Middle Englishware
  13. English todaycreamware

From cream + -ware.

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