Where does “timbered” come from?

Timbered comes from Middle English -ed and Old English -od, derived from Proto-Germanic timrą and Proto-Indo-European dem-, with the suffix from Proto-Indo-European -tós.

timbered (English): Wooded; bearing timber; forested; Made from...

Definitions

  1. Wooded; bearing timber; forested; Made from...

Ancestry of “timbered”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtimberTrees in a forest regarded as a source of wood;...
2Middle Englishtymber—
3Old Englishtimbertimber; a building; the act of building
4Proto-Germanictimrąbuilding; timber
5Proto-Indo-Europeandem-to build; to arrange, to put together

Words derived from “timbered”

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