Etymology

spacecraft

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Today it means: A vehicle that travels through space. Full definition →

English craft ← Middle English craft ← Old English cræft
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The story

  1. Latinspatium
  2. Old Frenchespace
  3. Anglo-Normanspace
  4. Middle Englishspace
  5. Englishspace
  6. Proto-Germanic*krafjaną
  7. Proto-Germanic*kraftuz
  8. Proto-West Germanic*kraftu
  9. Old Englishcræft
  10. Middle Englishcraft
  11. Englishcraft
  12. English todayspacecraft

From space + -craft.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.