Etymology

plowshare

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Middle English plowgh-schare
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The story

  1. Middle English · inherited fromplowgh-schare
  2. English todayplowshare

From Middle English plowgh-schare, plowh schare, equivalent to plow + share. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Plouchskoar (“ploughshare”), West Frisian ploechskaar (“ploughshare”), Dutch ploegschaar (“ploughshare”), German Low German Ploogschoor (“ploughshare”), German Pflugschar (“ploughshare”), Danish plovskær (“ploughshare”), Norwegian plogskjær (“ploughshare”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English culter (“ploughshare”), from Old English culter (“ploughshare, coulter, dagger”), borrowed from Latin culter (“knife, razor”).

Words from the same roots

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ploughshare

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.