English

lawnmowing

From lawn + mowing.

A compound of lawn + mowing

Old French lande ‘heath, moor’

Middle English launde ‘a glade or clearing’

English laund ‘glade’

English lawn

Proto-Indo-European *h₂meh₁- ‘to mow’

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Proto-West Germanic *māan ‘to mow’

Old English māwan ‘to mow’

Middle English mowen ‘to mow’

Middle English mowynge

Today it means

noun The mowing of a lawn.

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

Etymograph / lawnmowing