Etymograph

English

marginotomy

From margin + -tomy.

Formed from margin + -tomy

Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs ‘boundary, border’

Latin margō ‘edge, brink, border, margin’

Latin marginem

Middle English margyn ‘the edge of a page’

English margin

Today it means

noun The cutting (or incomplete copying) of the margins of a polynucleotide

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

Etymograph / marginotomy