Etymology

tableware

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Today it means: The cutlery, crockery and glassware used in setting a table for a meal. Full definition →

Middle English ware ← Old English waru ← Proto-West Germanic *waru
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The story

  1. Englishtable
  2. Proto-Germanic*warō
  3. Proto-West Germanic*waru
  4. Old Englishwaru
  5. Middle Englishware
  6. English todaytableware

From table + -ware.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.