Freightage
/ˈfreɪtɪdʒ/noun
The act or cost of transporting goods by ship, vehicle, or aircraft.
Did you know?Freightage is built on the same old Germanic root as *fraught* and *fraught with*—all tracing back to a word for a load or cargo, not a mystical spell, but a literal burden.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*frahtō
“cargo, freight, load”
Old Dutch / Middle Low German
Germanic
vracht
“freight, cargo”
Middle English
English
fraught
“loaded, burdened”
16th Century
English
freight
“transported cargo; to load a ship”
17th Century
English
freightage
“the charge for transporting freight; carriage of goods”