Where does “booking” come from?

Booking derives from English book, from Middle English booke, from Old English bōc, from Proto-Germanic būkaz, from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning to write or inscribe.

booking (English): present participle of book; The act or process of...

Definitions

  1. present participle of book; The act or process of...

Ancestry of “booking”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbookA collection of sheets of paper bound together to...
2Middle Englishbookebook; Alternative form of bouk
3Old Englishbōcbeech; book
4Proto-Germanicbōk—
5Proto-Germanicbakanąto bake
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeh₃g-to bake, to roast, to fry

Words derived from “booking”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g- →