Etymology

windsurf

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Today it means: To ride a surfboard that has an attached sail Full definition →

English surf ← Middle English suffe? ← Old English wind
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂weh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂wḗh₁ti
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂wéh₁n̥ts
  4. Proto-Germanic*windaz
  5. Proto-West Germanic*wind
  6. Old Englishwind
  7. Middle Englishwynd
  8. Englishwind
  9. Middle Englishsuffe?
  10. Englishsuff?
  11. Englishsurf
  12. English todaywindsurf

From wind + surf.

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