ashlar

The story

1. Latin · derived fromaxilla“little plank”
2. Medieval Latin · derived fromascelāris
3. Old French · derived fromesselier“wooden support, traverse beam”
4. Middle English · inherited fromassheler
5. English todayashlar

From Middle English assheler, acheler, etc., from forms of Old French esselier (“wooden support, traverse beam”), from Medieval Latin ascelāris and assellāris (equivalent to a diminutive of early forms of ais (“plank”)), variant of *axillāris (attested only after the Renaissance), from Latin axilla (“little plank”) + -āris (“-ary: forming adjectives”), from axis (“axle, plank”) + -illa (“-ella: forming diminutives”).

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