English

handbasin

From hand + basin.

A compound of hand + basin

Proto-Germanic *handuz

Proto-West Germanic *handu

Old English hand

Middle English hond

English hand

Proto-Celtic *baskis ‘bundle’

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Latin bacca

Vulgar Latin *baccinum ‘wide bowl’

Old French bacin

Middle English basyn ‘a basin-shaped gong’

English basin

Today it means

noun washbasin

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

Etymograph / handbasin