Etymology

sailboard

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Today it means: A recreational device consisting of a surfboard with a small sail on a flexible mast. Full definition →

English board ← Middle English bord ← Old English bord
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The story

  1. Englishsail
  2. Proto-Germanic*burdą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*bord
  4. Old Englishbord
  5. Middle Englishbord
  6. Englishboard
  7. English todaysailboard

From sail + board.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.