English

intercrop

From inter- + crop.

Formed from inter- + crop

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

Proto-Germanic *kruppaz ‘body, trunk, crop’

Proto-West Germanic *kropp

Old English cropp ‘the head or top of a plant, a sprout or herb,…’

Middle English crop

English crop

Today it means

verb To grow more than one crop in the same field, via interspersing of the crops either spatially or temporally.

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

Etymograph / intercrop