Etymology

shitcoin

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Today it means: A cryptocurrency of little or unclear value. Full definition →

English bitcoin ← Middle English coyn ← Old French coin
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sek-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*skey-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*skeyd-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*skéydt
  5. Proto-Germanic*skītaną
  6. Proto-Germanic*skitiz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*skiti
  8. Proto-West Germanic*skittjā
  9. Old Englishsċitte
  10. Old English*sċite
  11. Middle Englishschite
  12. Englishshit
  13. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  14. Proto-Indo-European*trísinflu.
  15. Proto-Indo-European*dwís
  16. Proto-Italic*dwis
  17. Proto-Italic*dwiznos
  18. Latinbīnus
  19. Late Latinbīnāriu
  20. Middle Englishbinarie
  21. Englishbinary
  22. Proto-Indo-European*deyḱ-der.?
  23. Latindigitus
  24. Middle Englishdigit
  25. Englishdigit
  26. Englishbinary digitabbr.
  27. Englishbitinflu.
  28. Englishbit
  29. Latincuneus
  30. Old Frenchcoin
  31. Middle Englishcoyn
  32. Englishcoin
  33. Englishbitcoin
  34. English todayshitcoin

Blend of shit + bitcoin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.