Etymology

gunbattle

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Today it means: A gunfight; a battle involving gunfire Full definition →

English battle ← Middle English batayle ← Old French bataille
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The story

  1. Englishgun
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰedʰh₂-
  3. Latinbattuō
  4. Late Latinbattālia
  5. Old Frenchbataille
  6. Middle Englishbatayle
  7. Englishbattle
  8. English todaygunbattle

From gun + battle.

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