English

horsewagon

From horse + wagon, perhaps an alteration of horse-wain.

A compound of horse + wagon

Proto-Germanic *hrussą ‘horse’

Proto-West Germanic *hross ‘horse’

Old English hors ‘horse’

Middle English hors ‘a horse’

English horse

Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to transport’

Proto-Germanic *wagnaz

Proto-West Germanic *wagn ‘cart, wagon’

Old Dutch *wagan

Middle Dutch wagen ‘a wagon, cart’

English wagon

Today it means

noun A horse-drawn wagon.

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

Etymograph / horsewagon