English

gunshed

From gun + shed.

A compound of gun + shed

Middle English gunne

English gun

Proto-Indo-European *skey- ‘to split, to dissect’

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Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną ‘to separate’

Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan ‘to separate’

Old English scēadan ‘to separate, divide, make a line of…’

Middle English scheden ‘to part or comb (hair)’

English shed

Today it means

noun A building in which military guns are stored.

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