English
ladderize
From ladder + -ize.
Formed from ladder + -ize
Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- ‘to lean’
Proto-Germanic *hlaidrijō
Proto-West Germanic *hlaidriju
Old English hlǣder ‘ladder’
Middle English ladder ‘ladder’
English ladder
Today it means
verb to sort the nodes of a tree graph on one level by the count of their subnodes (on all levels under the node)
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / ladderize