newscast

The word 'newscast' is a modern 20th-century portmanteau, a blend of 'news' and 'broadcast'. The term 'news' itself originates from the late Middle English plural of 'new', implying 'new things'. 'Broadcast' is a compound of 'broad' and 'cast', with 'cast' deriving from Old Norse 'kasta', meaning to throw. By combining the core of 'broadcast' with the specific subject 'news', the word 'newscast' was logically formed to denote the act of disseminating or "throwing out" reports of recent events to a wide audience via radio or television signals.

Structure: news + cast - news (Origin: English, from 'new' + plural '-s'. Functional Role: The subject matter, meaning recent information about current events.) - cast (Origin: Old Norse 'kasta'. Functional Role: A verb root meaning to throw or send out, here used in the sense of broadcasting.)