theenglishcrux: Average Average - “damaged goods” (ar.) Traced to Arabic arwariya &
theenglishcrux:AverageAverage - “damaged goods” (ar.)Traced to Arabic arwariya “damaged goods/merchandise.” When property was lost or damaged at sea, the owners took a tally of the “average” (damaged goods) and then divided the cost between them, so the loss was spread equally. This sense of taking a total and spreading it equally gives us our modern meaning. -- source link
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