English
pushcar
From push + car.
Latin pellō ‘to push, drive; to strike’
Latin pulsō ‘to push, strike, beat’
Old French poulser
Middle French pousser
Middle English pushen
English push
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós ‘vehicle’
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Gaulish *karros ‘wagon’
Latin carrus ‘two-wheeled baggage wagon’
Anglo-Norman carre
Middle English carre ‘cart’
English car
Today it means
noun Synonym of pushcart.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pushcar”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / pushcar