English
make-sport
From make + sport.
Proto-Germanic *makaz ‘fit, suitable, agreeable’
Proto-West Germanic *mak ‘fit, suitable’
Proto-West Germanic *makōn ‘to make suitable; to build, make’
Old English macian ‘to make, build, work’
Middle English maken
English make
Latin portō ‘to carry, bear’
Old French porter ‘to carry’
Anglo-Norman desporter ‘to divert, amuse’
Middle English disporten ‘to disport’
Middle English sporten ‘to divert’
English sport
Today it means
noun A laughingstock.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / make-sport