Etymology

frontiersmanship

Today it means: The craft or skill of being a frontiersman, of succeeding in settling a frontier. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English frontiersman
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The story

  1. Englishfrontiersman
  2. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  3. English todayfrontiersmanship

From frontiersman + -ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.