Etymology

geobag

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Today it means: A large sandbag used for geocontainment. Full definition →

English bag ← Middle English bagge ← Old French baguebor.?
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The story

  1. Proto-Hellenic*gaya
  2. Ancient Greekγαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
  3. Ancient Greekγῆ (gê)
  4. Ancient Greekγεω- (geō-)
  5. Englishgeo-
  6. Old Norsebaggibor.?
  7. Old Frenchbaguebor.?
  8. Middle Englishbagge
  9. Englishbag
  10. English todaygeobag

From geo- + bag.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.