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haversack

Meaningoats

Common meaning: bag carried over one shoulder

Journey through time

  1. Old High Germanhabaro‘oats’source
  2. Germanmeaning shiftsoats → oat sackhafersack‘oat sack’source
  3. Frenchhavresac‘a haversack, knapsack’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsoat sack → bag carried over one shoulderhaversack‘bag carried over one shoulder’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Old High German habaro ‘oats’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry HAVERSACK, p. 258 · dictionary scan

Roots

  • habaro Old High German “oats”

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