Etymology

dockside

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Today it means: The area near a dock, or next to a docked ship. Full definition →

English side ← Middle English side ← Old English sīde
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The story

  1. Middle Dutchdocke
  2. Dutchdok
  3. Englishdock
  4. Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-
  5. Proto-Germanic*sīdaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*sīdǭ
  7. Old Englishsīde
  8. Middle Englishside
  9. Englishside
  10. English todaydockside

From dock + -side.

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