Transportyng

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Carrying goods or people from one place to another ; filling a person with intense emotion such as joy or rapture
2. Conveying something from one location to a different one ; overwhelming someone with strong feeling or delight
3. Moving persons or cargo across distances ; enrapturing or thrilling a person so that they are carried away emotionally

Etymology: "Transportyng" is a Middle English spelling of the verb "transporting," the present participle of "transport," meaning to carry something from one place to another. The verb came into English from Old French "transporter," which in turn came from Latin "transportare," built from "trans" ("across") and "portare" ("to carry"). The same Latin root gives us "port" in the sense of a harbour, "portable," and "porter." The Middle English spelling shows the word in its early days in English, when "y" was often used for the vowel sound now written "i," and the ending "-yng" marked the participle form that later became "-ing." Medieval writers were not standardising spelling, so the same word could appear in several variants in a single manuscript.