Etymology

undock

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Today it means: To remove (a ship) from a dock. Full definition →

English dock ← Dutch dok ← Middle Dutch docke
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ent-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂énts
  3. Proto-Germanic*anda-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*anda-
  5. Old Englishand-
  6. Old Englishon-
  7. Middle Englishon-
  8. Englishun-
  9. Middle Dutchdocke
  10. Dutchdok
  11. Englishdock
  12. English todayundock

From un- + dock.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.