Etymology

undershelf

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Today it means: A storage area beneath a shelf Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁entér
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂én
  4. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  5. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰí
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(H)n̥dʰér
  7. Proto-Germanic*under
  8. Proto-West Germanic*undar
  9. Old Englishunder-
  10. Middle Englishunder-
  11. Englishunder-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kelH-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*(s)kel(H)-p-
  14. Proto-Germanic*skelfō
  15. Proto-West Germanic*skelfu:
  16. Proto-West Germanic*skilfijā
  17. Old Englishsċylfe?
  18. Middle Englishschelfe
  19. Englishshelf
  20. English todayundershelf

From under- + shelf.

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