English
searocket
From sea + rocket.
Proto-Germanic *saiwiz ‘sea, lake’
Proto-West Germanic *saiwi ‘body of water’
Old English sǣ
Middle English see ‘sea’
English sea
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
Today it means
noun Any of various flowering plants in the genus Cakile
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “searocket”. 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 / searocket