Etymograph

English

smoking

Smoking comes from Middle English smokynge, from smoken ‘to smoke’ + -ynge, from Old English smocian ‘to smoke’.

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150smocian1‘to smoke’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500smoken1‘to smoke’
  3. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500smokynge1
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2022smoking1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English smoking
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2022, Benedict le Vay, The heroes of Soham...: “Yet had the whole train and all its bombs…”.

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150smocianWiktionary, English smoking‘to smoke’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500smokenWiktionary, English smoking‘to smoke’
  3. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500smokyngeWiktionary, English smoking
  4. Englishearliest quotation 2022smokingWiktionary, English smoking. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2022, Benedict le Vay, The heroes of Soham...: “Yet had the whole train and all its bombs…”

Formed from smoke + -ing

Proto-Indo-European *smug- ‘to smoke’

Proto-Germanic *smukô ‘smoke’

Old English smoca

Middle English smoke

English smoke

Every English word from Old English smocian

Another origin of smoking

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500smokyng
  2. Englishtodaysmoking

Today it means

verb Giving off smoke.

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

Etymograph / Old English smocian / smoking

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