English
Microshaft
Blend of Microsoft + shaft (in slang sense; see shafted).
Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂p- ‘club, rod, shaft, staff’
Proto-Germanic *skaftaz
Proto-West Germanic *skaft
Old English sċeaft ‘shaft, pole’
Middle English chafte
English shaft
The story
Blend of Microsoft + shaft (in slang sense; see shafted).
Today it means
name The computer company Microsoft.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Microshaft