freight

Meanings

Noun

• Payment for transportation.
• Goods or items in transport.
• Transport of goods.
• A freight train.
• Cultural or emotional associations.

Verb

• To transport (goods).
• To load (a ship, etc.) with freight.

Related

Similar words

• cargo
• luggage

Origin

• From Middle English freyght, from Middle Dutch vracht, Middle Low German vrecht ("cost of transport"), from Proto-West Germanic *fra- + *aihti, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *fra- + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz ("possession"), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- ("to possess"), equivalent to for- + aught. Cognate with Old High German frēht ("earnings"), Old English ǣht ("owndom"), and a fraught. More at for-, own.