English

ropemaking

From rope + making.

Formed from rope + making

Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- ‘to tear, tear down’

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Proto-Germanic *raipaz ‘strip’

Proto-West Germanic *raip ‘strip, band’

Old English rāp ‘rope, cord, cable’

Middle English rop ‘a rope’

English rope

Old English macung

Middle English making

Today it means

noun The manufacture of rope.

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

Etymograph / ropemaking