Etymograph

English

fibershed

Blend of fiber + watershed, coined by Rebecca Burgess in 2011.

A blend of fiber + watershed

Latin fibra ‘fibre, filament’

Old French fibre

French fibre

English fiber

The story

Blend of fiber + watershed, coined by Rebecca Burgess in 2011.

Today it means

noun The geographic region from which come all of the resources to make an article of clothing.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fibershed