Etymology

radiosport

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Today it means: A sport combining radio direction finding and orienteering; transmitter hunt. Full definition →

English sport ← Middle English sporten ← Anglo-Norman desporter
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The story

  1. Latinradius
  2. Englishradio-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  4. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  5. Proto-Indo-European*d(w)is-
  6. Proto-Italic*dis-
  7. Latindis-
  8. Old Frenchdes-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*per-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*pr̥téh₂
  11. Proto-Italic*portā
  12. Proto-Italic*portāō
  13. Latinportāre
  14. Old Frenchporter
  15. Anglo-Normandesporter
  16. Middle Englishdisporten
  17. Middle Englishsporten
  18. Englishsport
  19. English todayradiosport

From radio- + sport.

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