English

sackload

From sack + load.

A compound of sack + load

Middle English sak ‘bag, sackcloth’

English sack

Proto-Indo-European *leyt- ‘to go, go forth’

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Proto-Germanic *laidō ‘leading, way’

Proto-West Germanic *laidu

Old English lād ‘course, journey; carrying’

Middle English lode ‘way, course; burden’

English load

Today it means

noun A sackful.

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

Etymograph / sackload