English
lowage
Lowage may come from French louage ‘hiring’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlouage‘hiring’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1840lowage
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentlouage‘hiring’uncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1840lowage
Earliest quotation: 1840, The parliamentary gazetteer of England a: “[…] granted and assigned all their loadenage or lowage,…”
Every English word from French louage
Today it means
noun A charge on shipping.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French louage / lowage