Where does “chipyard” come from?

chipyard (English) comes from English Yard, from English milliard, from French milliard, from French million, from Middle French million, from Old French millon, from Italian milione, from Italian mille.

chipyard (English): A storage area for sawdust and small pieces of...

Definitions

  1. A storage area for sawdust and small pieces of...

Ancestry of “chipyard”, step by step

chipyard traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Yard

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYardScotland Yard or New Scotland Yard
2Englishmilliard10, a thousand million
3FrenchmilliardA milliard
4Frenchmillionmillion, 10
5Middle Frenchmillionmillion, 10
6Old Frenchmillon
7Italianmilionemillion
8Italianmillethousand
9LatinMīllethousand; 1000
10Proto-Italicsmīɣeslīthousand
11Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂

via English Chip

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishChipA diminutive of the male given names Christopher and Charles
2Middle Englishchipfragment, worthless thing; chip, shard, fragment
3Old Englishċippchip; small piece of wood; chip, splinter,...
4Old Englishċippianto cut; hew
5Proto-Germanickipp-to chop; split; to cut; carve; hack; chop
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵey-to split; divide; germinate; sprout; to split;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂Every word from Proto-Italic smīɣeslīEvery word from Latin Mīlle