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Where does “shipowner” come from?

Shipowner is a compound of English ship and English own, with the agentive suffix -er ultimately derived from Latin -arius and Proto-Indo-European eik-.

shipowner (English): Someone who owns a ship

Definitions

  1. Someone who owns a ship

Ancestry of “shipowner”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishshipA water-borne vessel generally larger than a...
2EnglishrelationshipConnection or association; the condition of being...
3EnglishrelationThe manner in which two things may be associated;...
4Middle Englishrelacion—
5Old Frenchrelacion—
6Latinrelātiō—
7Latinreferō—
8Latinrĕ-—
9Latinprōdūcō—
10Latinprō-—
11Proto-Italic*pro-—
12Proto-Indo-Europeanpro-toward, forward
13Proto-Indo-Europeanpor-to give birth; forward, through; going, passage
14Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
15Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed
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