Etymology

statecraft

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Today it means: Synonym of statesmanship (“the ability to guide a state well”). Full definition →

Old English cræft ← Proto-West Germanic *kraftu ← Proto-Germanic *kraftuz
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s
  3. Proto-Italic*status
  4. Latinstatu
  5. Old Frenchestat
  6. Middle Englishstat
  7. Englishstate
  8. Proto-Germanic*krafjaną
  9. Proto-Germanic*kraftuz
  10. Proto-West Germanic*kraftu
  11. Old Englishcræft
  12. English todaystatecraft

From state + -craft.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.