Etymology

polybag

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Today it means: A plastic bag used to package a number of things together, but especially one used to package small supplementary publications that would otherwise fall out of a newspaper or magazine. Full definition →

English bag ← Middle English bagge ← Old French baguebor.?
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*polh₁ús
  3. Ancient Greekπολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)
  4. Englishpoly-
  5. Old Norsebaggibor.?
  6. Old Frenchbaguebor.?
  7. Middle Englishbagge
  8. Englishbag
  9. English todaypolybag

From poly- + bag.

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