Where does “meatgrinder” come from?

meatgrinder (English) comes from English meat, from Middle English mete, from Middle English bake mete, from Middle English baken, from Old English bacan, from Proto-West Germanic bakan, from Proto-Germanic bakaną, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g- — to bake, to roast, to fry.

meatgrinder (English): A device for cutting meat into very small pieces;...

Definitions

  1. A device for cutting meat into very small pieces;...

Ancestry of “meatgrinder”, step by step

meatgrinder traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English meat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmeatThe flesh of an animal used as food; A type of...
2Middle EnglishmeteFood, nourishment or comestibles; that which is...
3Middle Englishbake meteAny kind of cooked food which has a pastry...
4Middle EnglishbakenTo bake; to cook in an oven; usually used of...
5Old Englishbacanto bake
6Proto-West Germanicbakanto bake
7Proto-Germanicbakanąto bake
8Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeh₃g-to bake, to roast, to fry

via English grinder

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgrinderOne who grinds something, such as the teeth; A...
2Middle Englishgrinder
3Old Englishgrindereone who or that which grinds, especially corn or...
4Old English-eremasculine agent suffix, originally applied only...
5Proto-West Germanic-ārī-er
6Proto-Germanic-ārijaz-er
7Latin-āriuser
8Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)
Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeh₃g-