English

handsheet

From hand + sheet.

Formed from hand + sheet

Proto-Germanic *handuz

Proto-West Germanic *handu

Old English hand

Middle English hond

English hand

Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewd- ‘to throw, shoot’

Proto-Germanic *skautijǭ

Old English sċīete ‘a sheet of linen’

Middle English schete ‘linen cloth’

English sheet

Today it means

noun A small sheet of manufactured material created in a laboratory for testing purposes.

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

Etymograph / handsheet