archery
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷos Proto-Italic *arkuos Vulgar Latin arcus Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āsjos Vulgar Latin -arius Vulgar Latin arcuārius Vulgar Latin *arcārius Old French archier Old French archeriebor. Middle English archerie English archery From Middle English archerie, from Old French archerie, from archier (“archer”). Equivalent to archer + -ery.
Definitions
The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.
A group of archers.
The neighborhood
- neighborarcher
- neighborbowman
- neighborbowmanship
- neighbortoxophilite
Derived
archery ground, archery tag, dartchery, flight archery, para-archery
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for archery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA