Where does “viewership” come from?
Viewership comes from English viewer and the Middle English suffix -schipe, ultimately deriving from Latin videre meaning "to see" through Old French -er and Latin -arius.
viewership (English): collectively, the viewers of a television program...
Definitions
- collectively, the viewers of a television program...
Ancestry of “viewership”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | viewer | Someone who views a spectacle; an onlooker or... |
| 2 | Middle English | vewer | A recorder or examiner, especially a legally... |
| 3 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 4 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 5 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |