English
embank
From en- + bank.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- ‘to turn’
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Lombardic bank ‘bench’
Italian banca ‘counter’
Middle French banque
Middle English banke
English bank
Today it means
verb to put up a bank so as to confine or to defend
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / embank