English
mailstorm
From mail + storm.
Proto-Germanic *malhō ‘leather bag’
Frankish *malhu ‘bag’
Old French male ‘bag, wallet’
Anglo-Norman male
Middle English male ‘bag’
English mail
Proto-Germanic *staurijaną ‘to destroy, disturb’
Proto-Germanic *sturmaz ‘storm’
Proto-West Germanic *sturm ‘storm’
Old English storm ‘tempest, storm’
Middle English storm
English storm
Today it means
noun A large influx of email.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / mailstorm