machine

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*megʰ-der.?
2. Ancient Greekμηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ)
3. Latinmāchina
4. Middle Frenchmachine
5. English todaymachine

Borrowed from Middle French machine, from Latin māchina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́), cognate with Attic Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from which comes mechanical. Displaced native Old English searu.

Words from the same roots