Etymograph

English

Gunter's scale

From Gunter + -'s + scale, from the surname of its inventor, the English clergyman, geometer, and mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581–1628).

Formed from Gunter + -'s + scale

Proto-Germanic *Gunþiharjaz

Proto-West Germanic *Gunþihari

Old High German Gundheri

German Gunther

English Gunter

Proto-Indo-European *skend- ‘to jump up, ascend’

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂

Proto-Italic *skand-slā

Latin scāla ‘ladder; stairs’

Middle English scale ‘ladder’

English scale

Today it means

noun A wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which is marked scales of equal parts, of chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by means of which many problems in navigation and surveying may be solved mechanically, using only divides.

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