Etymology

handcart

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Today it means: A cart designed to be pulled or pushed by hand (as opposed to with a beast of burden.) Full definition →

English cart ← Middle English cart ← Old English cræt
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*handuz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*handu
  3. Old Englishhand
  4. Middle Englishhond
  5. Englishhand
  6. Old Norsekartr
  7. Proto-Germanic*kradô
  8. Proto-West Germanic*krat
  9. Old Englishcræt
  10. Middle Englishcart
  11. Englishcart
  12. English todayhandcart

From hand + cart.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.