Etymology

byroad

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Today it means: A road less frequented than a highway; a byway. Full definition →

English road ← Middle English rode ← Old English rād
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The story

  1. Englishby-
  2. Proto-Germanic*raidō
  3. Proto-West Germanic*raidu
  4. Old Englishrād
  5. Middle Englishrode
  6. Englishroad
  7. English todaybyroad

From by- + road.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.