English

handcarry

From hand + carry.

A compound of hand + carry

Proto-Germanic *handuz

Proto-West Germanic *handu

Old English hand

Middle English hond

English hand

Latin carrus ‘four-wheeled baggage wagon’

Anglo-Norman carier

Middle English carien ‘to transport’

English carry

Today it means

verb To transport and deliver in person.

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

Etymograph / handcarry