Etymology

polyangle

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Today it means: polygon Full definition →

English angle ← Middle English angle ← Middle French angle
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*polh₁ús
  3. Ancient Greekπολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)
  4. Englishpoly-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂eng-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂engulos
  7. Proto-Italic*angulos
  8. Latinangulus
  9. Middle Frenchangle
  10. Middle Englishangle
  11. Englishangle
  12. English todaypolyangle

From poly- + angle.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.