Etymology

showmanship

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Today it means: The quality or skill of giving an engaging or compelling performance; a stage presence. Full definition →

Proto-Germanic *skapjaną ← English showman ← Middle English man
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The story

  1. Englishshow
  2. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  3. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  5. Old Englishmann
  6. Middle Englishman
  7. Englishshowman
  8. Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
  9. English todayshowmanship

From showman + -ship.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.