Where does “chainsorter” come from?

chainsorter (English) comes from English sorter, from English sort, from Middle English sort, from Old French sorte, from Italian sorta, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

chainsorter (English): A device used to connect conveyor belts travelling in different directions in automated sortation

Definitions

  1. A device used to connect conveyor belts travelling in different directions in automated sortation

Ancestry of “chainsorter”, step by step

chainsorter traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English sorter

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsorterA person employed to sort; A machine or algorithm...
2EnglishsortA general type; Manner; form of being or acting;...
3Middle Englishsort
4Old Frenchsortesort; type
5Italiansortasort, type, kind; feminine singular past...
6Latinsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a...
7Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
8Latinlegōto collect, gather, bring together, catch
9Latinlēxa proposition or motion for a law made to the people by a magistrate, a bill
10Proto-Italiclēg-
11Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s
12Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

via English chain

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishchainA series of interconnected rings or links usually...
2Middle EnglishcheyneA chain; a series of links made of metal,...
3Old Frenchchaine
4Latincatēnachain
5Proto-Indo-Europeankat-cub; to weave, to braid; to link or weave...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European leǵ-