batweard
Old English
noun
Definitions
- ship's watchman; keeper or commander of a ship
Etymology
Compound from Old English bāt (boat, vessel, food, that which can be bitten, bait, ship) + Old English weard (ward, keeper, guardian, watchman, guard, lurking, advance post, protector, guardianship, king, watching, waiting for, ambuscade, protection, lord, keeping, possessor).
Origin
Old English
weard
Gloss
ward, keeper, guardian, watchman, guard, lurking, advance post, protector, guardianship, king, watching, waiting for, ambuscade, protection, lord, keeping, possessor
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
王
Emoji
💂 💂♀️ 💂♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- boatswain English
- *baitaz Proto-Germanic
- *wardaz Proto-Germanic
- *warduz Proto-Germanic
- andweard Old English
- bāt Old English
- ciricweard Old English
- duruweard Old English
- eþelweard Old English
- feorhweard Old English
- hlaford Old English
- leodweard Old English
- sæweard Old English
- weard Old English
- weardsteall Old English
- wyrtweard Old English
- æfweard Old English
- bot Middle English
- ward Middle English
- bátr Old Norse
- bat Old French
- batel Old French
- boato Esperanto
- bad Welsh
- bát Middle Irish
- bojin Marshallese