Where does “yardage” come from?

Yardage derives from English yard plus the suffix -age, which comes from Old French -age, ultimately from Latin -aticum and Proto-Indo-European roots meaning an enclosure or garden.

yardage (English): An amount or length measured in yards; The use of...

Definitions

An amount or length measured in yards; The use of...

Ancestry of “yardage”, step by step

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	English	Yard	—
2	English	milliard	10, a thousand million
3	French	milliard	A milliard
4	French	million	million, 10
5	Middle French	million	million, 10
6	Old French	millon	—
7	Italian	milione	million
8	Italian	mille	thousand
9	Latin	Mīlle	—
10	Proto-Italic	smīɣeslī	—
11	Proto-Indo-European	smih₂ǵʰéslih₂	—

Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ →

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