Where does “spoontray” come from?

spoontray (English) comes from English tray, from English trans, from English transgender, from English gender, from Middle English gender, from Middle French gendre, from Latin genus, from Proto-Italic genos — to produce, to beget, to give birth.

spoontray (English): A tray for spoons

Definitions

  1. A tray for spoons

Ancestry of “spoontray”, step by step

spoontray traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English tray

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtrayA small, typically rectangular or round, flat,...
2EnglishtransIn a double bond in which the greater radical on...
3EnglishtransgenderHaving a gender which is different from the sex...
4Englishgenderkind
5Middle Englishgender
6Middle Frenchgendre
7Latingenusbirth, origin, lineage, descent; kind, type,...
8Proto-Italicgenoslineage, origin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanǵénh₁osrace, lineage
10Proto-Indo-Europeanǵenh₁-to produce, to beget, to give birth

via English spoon

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishspoonAn implement for eating or serving; a scooped...
2Middle EnglishspoonAlternative form of spone
3Old Englishspōnpiece of wood, chip; sliver, chip of wood,...
4Proto-West Germanicspanupiece of wood, chip, shaving
5Proto-Germanicspenônipple
6Proto-Indo-Europeanpsten-os-
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpstḗnbreast, teat
8Proto-Indo-Europeanph₂ǵ-sth₂-ḗn
9Proto-Indo-Europeansteh₂-to stand
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁-
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