English

launchway

From launch + way.

A compound of launch + way

Old Northern French lanchier

Middle English launchen ‘to throw as a lance’

Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- ‘to bring’

Proto-Germanic *wegaz

Proto-West Germanic *weg ‘way’

Old English weġ

Middle English way

English way

Today it means

noun The timbers etc. down which a vessel is launched into the water.

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

Etymograph / launchway