Etymology

woodgrain

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Today it means: The grain of wood. Full definition →

English grain ← Middle English greyn ← Old French grain
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The story

  1. Englishwood
  2. Latingrānum
  3. Old Frenchgrain
  4. Middle Englishgreyn
  5. Englishgrain
  6. English todaywoodgrain

From wood + grain.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.