English

filemaking

From file + making.

A compound of file + making

Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo- ‘sinew’

Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom

Latin fīlum ‘thread’

Old French fil ‘thread’

English file

Old English macung

Middle English making

Today it means

noun The manufacture of files (rasping tools).

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

Etymograph / filemaking