English

ahull

From a- + hull.

Formed from a- + hull

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Germanic *hul-

Old English hulu ‘seed covering’

Middle English hul ‘seed covering, hull of a ship’

English hull

Today it means

adv at the hull of a ship

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