Etymology

chipboard

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Today it means: A building material made from wood chips compressed and bound with synthetic resin. Full definition →

English board ← Middle English bord ← Old English bord
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*kippōną
  2. Proto-West Germanic*kippōn
  3. Old English*ċippian
  4. Old Englishċipp
  5. Middle Englishchippe
  6. Englishchip
  7. Proto-Germanic*burdą
  8. Proto-West Germanic*bord
  9. Old Englishbord
  10. Middle Englishbord
  11. Englishboard
  12. English todaychipboard

From chip + board.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.