English

airsick

From air + sick.

A compound of air + sick

Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ ‘mist, air’

Latin āēr

Old French air

Middle English aire

English air

Proto-Indo-European *sewg- ‘to be troubled or grieved’

Proto-Germanic *seukaz

Proto-West Germanic *seuk

Old English sēoc ‘sick’

Middle English sik ‘sick’

English sick

Today it means

adj Nauseated due to the effects of motion of an aircraft; suffering from motion sickness caused by air travel.

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