Etymograph

English

grasscutter

From grass + cutter.

A compound of grass + cutter

Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- ‘to grow’

Proto-Germanic *grasą

Proto-West Germanic *gras

Old English græs

Middle English gras ‘a grass’

English grass

Middle English cutter

English cutter

Another origin of grasscutter

  1. Hindic. 1500–presentघासखाटाliterally ‘cutter of grass’uncertain
  2. Englishtodaygrasscutter

Today it means

noun The cane rat.

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

Etymograph / grasscutter