Etymology

mower

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Today it means: A lawnmower, a machine used to cut grass on lawns. Full definition →

Middle English mowere ← Old English magan ← Proto-West Germanic *magan
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*megʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(me)mógʰe
  3. Proto-Germanic*maganą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*magan
  5. Old Englishmagan
  6. Middle Englishmowen
  7. Middle Englishmowere
  8. English todaymower

From Middle English mowere, equivalent to mow + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.