Where does “washtray” come from?

washtray (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.

washtray (English): A tray for holding items while they are washed

Definitions

  1. A tray for holding items while they are washed

Ancestry of “washtray”, step by step

washtray 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 wash

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishwashTo clean with water; To move or erode by the...
2Middle Englishwashen
3Old Englishwasċanto wash
4Proto-West Germanicwaskanto wash
5Proto-Germanicwaskanąto wash
6Proto-Germanicwatskanąto wash, get wet
7Proto-Indo-Europeanwed-water
8Proto-Indo-Europeanwey-to wither; fade; to move, go ahead; to be strong;...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵenh₁-
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