Etymology

machinegun

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English gun ← Middle French machine
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The story

  1. Middle Frenchmachine
  2. Englishmachine
  3. Englishgun
  4. English todaymachinegun

From machine + gun.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.