English

airshift

From air + shift.

A compound of air + shift

Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ ‘mist, air’

Latin āēr

Old French air

Middle English aire

English air

Proto-Indo-European *skey- ‘to cut’

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Proto-Germanic *skiftijaną ‘to divide’

Proto-West Germanic *skiftijan

Old English sċiftan ‘to divide’

Middle English schiften ‘to split’

English shift

Today it means

noun A block of continuous broadcast time, often four or six hours.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / airshift