Etymology

spaceman

S1P3A1C3E1M3A1N1

Today it means: An astronaut, often a male astronaut. Full definition →

Middle English man ← Old English mann ← Proto-West Germanic *mann
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The story

  1. Latinspatium
  2. Old Frenchespace
  3. Anglo-Normanspace
  4. Middle Englishspace
  5. Englishspace
  6. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  7. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  8. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  9. Old Englishmann
  10. Middle Englishman
  11. English todayspaceman

From space + -man.

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