Etymology

postcardware

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Today it means: A software product whose author requests as payment a postcard from the user's hometown. Full definition →

English softwarebf. ← Middle English ware ← Old English waru
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂pó
  4. Proto-Italic*po
  5. Proto-Indo-European*teḱ-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*tḱéytibf.
  7. Proto-Indo-European*tḱey-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*tḱinéti
  9. Proto-Italic*sinō
  10. Proto-Italic*pozinō
  11. Latinpōnō
  12. Latinposita
  13. Italianposta
  14. Middle Frenchposte
  15. Englishpost
  16. Ancient Greekχάρτης (khártēs)
  17. Latincharta
  18. Old Frenchcarte
  19. Middle Englishcarde
  20. Englishcard
  21. Englishpostcard
  22. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  23. Proto-Germanic*samþuz /*samftuz
  24. Proto-West Germanic*samft(ī)
  25. Old Englishsōfte
  26. Middle Englishsofte
  27. Englishsoft
  28. Proto-Germanic*warō
  29. Proto-West Germanic*waru
  30. Old Englishwaru
  31. Middle Englishware
  32. Englishsoftwarebf.
  33. English todaypostcardware

From postcard + -ware.

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