Etymograph

English

fog line

From fog + line.

A compound of fog + line

English foggy ‘covered with tall grass’

English fog

Proto-Germanic *līną ‘flax’

Proto-Germanic *līnǭ ‘line’

Proto-West Germanic *līnā ‘line’

Old English līne ‘line’

Middle English line ‘rope’

English line

Today it means

noun The boundary of a body of air, contacting the earth's surface, that has fallen below the dew point and usually contains fog.

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

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