Etymology

tunneler

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Today it means: Someone or something that tunnels. Full definition →

English tunnel ← Middle English tonnel ← Old French tone
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*temh₁-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*tend-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*tondeh₂
  4. Proto-Celtic*tondā
  5. Medieval Latintunna
  6. Old Frenchtone
  7. Middle Englishtonnel
  8. Englishtunnel
  9. English todaytunneler

From tunnel + -er.

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