Etymology

toolshelf

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Today it means: A shelf for storing tools. Full definition →

English shelf ← Middle English schelfe ← Old English sċylfe?
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The story

  1. Englishtool
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kelH-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kel(H)-p-
  4. Proto-Germanic*skelfō
  5. Proto-West Germanic*skelfu:
  6. Proto-West Germanic*skilfijā
  7. Old Englishsċylfe?
  8. Middle Englishschelfe
  9. Englishshelf
  10. English todaytoolshelf

From tool + shelf.

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