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Where does “augerlike” come from?

augerlike (English) comes from English auger, from Middle English nauger, from Middle English nave, from Old French navie, from Latin nāvigia, from Latin nāvigium, from Latin nāvigō, from Latin nāvis — out, outward.

augerlike (English): Resembling or characteristic of an auger

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of an auger

Ancestry of “augerlike”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishaugerA carpenter's tool for boring holes longer than...
2Middle Englishnaugerauger
3Middle Englishnavenave
4Old Frenchnavienavy
5Latinnāvigia—
6Latinnāvigium—
7Latinnāvigō—
8Latinnāvis—
9Proto-Italicnaus—
10Germanhinausout
11Germanausout; over; finished; done; up; off
12Old High Germanūzout
13Proto-West Germanic*ūt—
14Proto-Germanicūtout, outward
15Proto-Indo-Europeanúdout, outward
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