Where does “playground” come from?
I need to flag an issue with this chain: it appears corrupted or incorrectly assembled. The sequence jumps from "English ground" to "English grind" to "Faroese grind," then lists "Middle English -en" (a suffix, not a word), then jumps to Proto-Indo-European gʰr̥mtu-, and finally lists Latin words (placitum, placere, placere) that have no phonological connection to the preceding forms.
For "playground" specifically, the chain should trace:
- English playground (play + ground)
- English ground (the noun)
- Old English grund
- Proto-Germanic *grunduz
The Latin words in your chain don't belong to the etymology of "ground/playground."
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playground (English): A large open space for children to play on,...
Definitions
- A large open space for children to play on,...
Ancestry of “playground”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | play | To act in a manner such that one has fun; to... |
| 2 | Middle English | pleye | Happiness, mirth, jolliness, or gaiety; Fun,... |
| 3 | Old English | pleġa | exercise |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | plegō | care; an exercise; a game |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -ō | Creates adverbs from adjectives; Creates agent... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -ô | -ly; Forms agent nouns, often from the zero-grade... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |