Etymology

tripoint

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Today it means: a point at which three borders meet. Full definition →

English point ← Middle English poynt ← Old French point
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*tréyes
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tri-
  3. Proto-Italic*tri-
  4. Latintri-
  5. Englishtri-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*pewǵ-
  7. Proto-Italic*pungō
  8. Latinpungō
  9. Latinpūnctus
  10. Latinpūnctum
  11. Old Frenchpoint
  12. Middle Englishpoynt
  13. Englishpoint
  14. English todaytripoint

From tri- + point.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.