Etymology

flatware

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Today it means: Eating utensils; cutlery, such as forks, knives and spoons. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Germanic*flataz
  2. Old Norseflatr
  3. Middle Englishflat
  4. Englishflat
  5. Proto-Germanic*warō
  6. Proto-West Germanic*waru
  7. Old Englishwaru
  8. Middle Englishware
  9. English todayflatware

From flat + -ware.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.