Where does “enginewright” come from?

enginewright (English) comes from English engine, from Middle English engyn, from Anglo-Norman engine, from Old French engin, from Latin ingenium, from Latin gignere, from Latin genere, from Latin genus — to produce, to beget, to give birth.

enginewright (English): A person who builds engines

Definitions

  1. A person who builds engines

Ancestry of “enginewright”, step by step

enginewright traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English engine

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishengineA large construction used in warfare, such as a...
2Middle Englishengynengine; Engyn, Middle English, noun - skill,...
3Anglo-Normanengine
4Old Frenchenginintelligence; ruse; trickery; deception;...
5Latiningeniuminnate or natural quality, natural character;...
6Latingigneresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
7Latingenereablative singular of genus; to beget, produce
8Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
9Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
10Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
11Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth

via English Wright

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishWrightfrom a maker of machinery; found in many combinations such as Cartwright
2Middle Englishwrighte
3Old Englishwyrhtaa worker; a maker of something
4Proto-West Germanicwurhtijōworker, workman
5Proto-West Germanic-jōForms agent nouns from verbs
6Proto-Indo-European-yétiCreates intransitive, often deponent,...
7Proto-Indo-Europeanyé-
8Chichewaiyehe, she
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁-