Where does “breakage” come from?

Breakage comes from Middle English breken combined with the Old French suffix -age, which derives from Latin -aticum and -aticus, ultimately tracing to Proto-Indo-European roots bʰreg- and bʰer- with the suffix -eh₂tos.

breakage (English): The act of breaking; Something that has been...

Definitions

  1. The act of breaking; Something that has been...

Ancestry of “breakage”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishbreakTo separate into two or more pieces, to fracture...
2Middle Englishbrekento break
3Old Englishbrecanto break; to break into a place
4Proto-West Germanicbrekanto break
5Proto-Germanicbrekanąto break
6Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰrēǵ-to shine, shimmer

Words derived from “breakage

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰrēǵ-