Where does “timber” come from?

Timber comes from Middle English tymber, from Old English timber, from Proto-Germanic timrą, from Proto-Indo-European dem-.

timber (English): Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood;...

Definitions

  1. Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood;...

Ancestry of “timber”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishtymber—
2Old Englishtimbertimber; a building; the act of building
3Proto-Germanictimrąbuilding; timber
4Proto-Indo-Europeandem-to build; to arrange, to put together

Words derived from “timber”

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