Where does “granary” come from?

Granary comes from Latin granarium, a place for storing grain, formed with the suffix -arium from Latin grānum meaning grain, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ǵr̥h₂nóm.

granary (English): A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal...

Definitions

  1. A storage facility for grain or sometimes animal...

Ancestry of “granary”, step by step

granary traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin grānārium

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latingrānāriumgranary
2Latingrānumgrain, seed, small kernel
3Proto-Italicgrānomgrain
4Proto-Indo-Europeanǵr̥h₂nómgrain
5Proto-Indo-Europeanǵr̥h₂nósmatured, grown old
6Proto-Indo-Europeanǵerh₂-to grow old, to mature

via English grain

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgrainThe harvested seeds of various grass food crops...
2Middle EnglishgraynA forking channel or pass; a fjord or estuary;...
3Old Norsegreinbranch; point, head, part; cause, reason
4Proto-Germanicgrainō—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵerh₂- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵr̥h₂nós →Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵr̥h₂nóm →