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Where does “yardgrass” come from?

yardgrass (English) comes from English Yard, from English milliard, from French milliard, from French million, from Middle French million, from Old French millon, from Italian milione, from Italian mille.

yardgrass (English): Grass in a lawn; "Eleusine indica", a coarse...

Definitions

  1. Grass in a lawn; "Eleusine indica", a coarse...

Ancestry of “yardgrass”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishYard—
2Englishmilliard10, a thousand million
3FrenchmilliardA milliard
4Frenchmillionmillion, 10
5Middle Frenchmillionmillion, 10
6Old Frenchmillon—
7Italianmilionemillion
8Italianmillethousand
9LatinMīlle—
10Proto-Italicsmīɣeslī—
11Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂ →