Etymology

overflight

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Today it means: The flight of an aircraft over a particular place, especially a flight over foreign or enemy territory. Full definition →

English flight ← Middle English flight ← Old English flyht
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*plew-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*plewk-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*pléwketi
  10. Proto-Germanic*fleuganą
  11. Proto-West Germanic*fleugan
  12. Proto-West Germanic*fluhti
  13. Old Englishflyht
  14. Middle Englishflight
  15. Englishflight
  16. English todayoverflight

From over- + flight.

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