English
single-decker
Single-decker comes from English deck ‘floor, level’.
- English1500–presentdeck‘floor, level’
- Englishtodaysingle-decker
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- English1500–presentdeck‘floor, level’
- Englishtodaysingle-decker
Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘one’
Latin singulus ‘one each’
Old French sengle
Middle English single
English single
Every English word from English deck
Today it means
noun a single-deck bus, which has only one level for passengers, unlike a double-decker.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English deck / single-decker