Etymograph

English

girl-hour

From girl + hour.

A compound of girl + hour

Middle English gerle ‘young person’

English girl

Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ ‘year’

Ancient Greek ὥρᾱ ‘any defined period of time’

Latin hōra

Old French houre

Middle English houre

English hour

Today it means

noun A unit of computing power in the context of 1940s–1970s technology equal to one female worker working for one hour, for example, writing code or entering data to punch cards.

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

Etymograph / girl-hour