Etymology

sandbag

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Today it means: A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel. Full definition →

English bag ← Middle English bagge ← Old French baguebor.?
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sámdʰos?
  2. Proto-Germanic*samdaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*samd
  4. Old Englishsand
  5. Middle Englishsond
  6. Englishsand
  7. Old Norsebaggibor.?
  8. Old Frenchbaguebor.?
  9. Middle Englishbagge
  10. Englishbag
  11. English todaysandbag

From sand + bag.

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