Etymology

hardship

hard·ship
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Today it means: Difficulty or trouble; hard times. Full definition →

Middle English hardshipe
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromhardshipe
  2. English todayhardship

From Middle English hardshipe, equivalent to hard + -ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.