English
rocketborne
From rocket + borne.
Proto-Germanic *rukkô ‘a distaff, a staff with flax fibres tied…’
Proto-West Germanic *rokkō
Lombardic rocko ‘spinning wheel’
Italian rocca ‘a distaff’
Italian rocchetta ‘incendiary rocket’
English rocket
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ‘to bear, carry’
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Proto-West Germanic *beran ‘to carry, to bear’
Old English beran ‘to carry, bear’
Old English boren
Middle English boren
English borne
Today it means
adj Carried by a rocket.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “rocketborne”. 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.
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