Etymology

glassware

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Today it means: Articles made from glass, especially drinking glasses, jugs and other tableware made of glass. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Germanic*glasą
  2. Proto-West Germanic*glas
  3. Old Englishglæs
  4. Middle Englishglas
  5. Englishglass
  6. Proto-Germanic*warō
  7. Proto-West Germanic*waru
  8. Old Englishwaru
  9. Middle Englishware
  10. English todayglassware

From glass + -ware.

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