Freight

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Freight

Type

free base

Denotation

transport of goods and passengers, load with cargo

Etymology

Middle English freight, freght, freyght, from variant of fraught, fraght; Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht and/or Middle Low German vrecht; Old Saxon frāht, frēht

Evidence

afreight, airfreight, freight, freightable, freightage, freighted, freighter, freighthopper, freighthopping, freighting, freightless, freights, freightwagon, nonfreight, overfreight, overfreight, overfreighted, overfreighting, overfreights

Notes

<igh> etymological marker

See Also

Fraught