Etymology

railborne

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Today it means: Carried by train, transported by rail. Full definition →

English rail ← Middle English rail ← Old French reille
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*regulu
  2. Old Englishregol
  3. Latinrēgula
  4. Old Frenchreille
  5. Middle Englishrail
  6. Englishrail
  7. English todayrailborne

From rail + -borne.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.