Where does “newscast” come from?
Newscast is a twentieth-century English compound of news, from Middle English newes, combined with broadcast.
newscast (English): A broadcast of the news; a news report that is...
Definitions
- A broadcast of the news; a news report that is...
Ancestry of “newscast”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | -cast | Forming words for audiovisual content distributed... |
| 2 | English | broadcast | Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast... |
| 3 | English | broad | Wide in extent or scope; Extended, in the sense... |
| 4 | German | braut | inflection of brauen: ## third-person singular... |
| 5 | Middle High German | brūt | concubine |
| 6 | Old High German | brūt | daughter-in-law, bride; bride |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | *brūdi | bride |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | brūdiz | bride |