Where does “hardship” come from?
Hardship comes from Middle English herdschipe, a noun formed from herde meaning "flock" or "herd" with the suffix -schipe denoting a condition or state.
hardship (English): Difficulty or trouble; hard times
Definitions
- Difficulty or trouble; hard times
Ancestry of “hardship”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | hardshipe | hardship |
| 2 | Middle English | -schipe | Affixed to nouns and adjectives to form nouns... |
| 3 | Old English | -sċiepe | noun-forming suffix: -ship |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | -skapi | Forms nouns denoting state, originally meaning... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | -skapiz | Forms nouns denoting state, originally meaning... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | skapjaną | to make, to create; to shape |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | skab- | to cut, split, hew, shape; to cut, split, carve,... |