Etymology

supertanker

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Today it means: An extremely large tanker ship. Full definition →

English tanker ← Portuguese tanque ← Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī)
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Prakrit𑀝𑀁𑀓 (ṭaṃka)
  8. Gujaratiટાંકી (ṭā̃kī)
  9. Portuguesetanque
  10. Englishtank
  11. Englishtanker
  12. English todaysupertanker

From super- + tanker.

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