Etymograph

English

ringmail

From ring + mail.

Formed from ring + mail

Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-

Proto-Germanic *hringaz

Proto-West Germanic *hring

Old English hring ‘ring’

Middle English ryng

English ring

Proto-Germanic *malhō ‘leather bag’

Frankish *malhu ‘bag’

Old French male ‘bag, wallet’

Anglo-Norman male

Middle English male ‘bag’

English mail

Today it means

noun A type of personal armour constructed as series of metallic rings sewn to a fabric or leather foundation, assumed by the Victorians to have been used in the Middle Ages, but now generally thought not to have existed historically.

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

Etymograph / ringmail