Where does “dishtray” come from?

dishtray (English) comes from English tray, from English trans, from English transgender, from English gender, from Middle English gender, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos — to produce, to beget, to give birth.

dishtray (English): A tray for dishes

Definitions

  1. A tray for dishes

Ancestry of “dishtray”, step by step

dishtray traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English tray

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtrayA small, typically rectangular or round, flat,...
2EnglishtransIn a double bond in which the greater radical on...
3EnglishtransgenderHaving a gender which is different from the sex...
4Englishgenderkind
5Middle Englishgender
6Middle Frenchgendre
7Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
8Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
10Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth

via English dish

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdishA vessel such as a plate for holding or serving...
2Middle Englishdissh
3Old Englishdisċplate; bowl; dish
4Proto-West Germanicdiskdish
5Latindiscusa discus, quoit; a dish shaped like a discus;...
6Proto-Italicdiskōlearn
7Proto-Italicdikskō
8Proto-Indo-Europeandi-dḱ-ské-ti
9Proto-Indo-Europeandeḱ-take; perceive
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁-
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