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Where does “sawmill” come from?

Sawmill derives from English saw and mill, where saw comes from Old English mylen via Latin millesimum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European sekʷe- meaning to cut.

sawmill (English): A machine, building or company used for cutting ...

Definitions

  1. A machine, building or company used for cutting ...

Ancestry of “sawmill”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishMill—
2EnglishmillionThe cardinal number 1,000,000: 10; a thousand...
3Middle Englishmilioun—
4Middle Frenchmillionmillion, 10
5Old Frenchmillon—
6Italianmilionemillion
7Italianmillethousand
8LatinMīlle—
9Proto-Italicsmīɣeslī—
10Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂—

Words derived from “sawmill”

  • somil
Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ →