Where does “bank” come from?

Bank comes from French banc, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca, from Old High German bank.

bank (English): An institution where one can place and borrow...

Definitions

  1. An institution where one can place and borrow...

Ancestry of “bank”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishbanke
2Old Englishbancabench
3Proto-Germanicbankôbank, embankment; a hill

Words derived from “bank

Every word from Proto-Germanic bankô
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