English

softwall

From soft + wall.

A compound of soft + wall

Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) ‘level’

Old English sōfte

Middle English softe ‘soft’

English soft

Proto-Indo-European *welH- ‘to turn’

Latin vallum ‘wall’

Proto-West Germanic *wall ‘wall’

Old English weall ‘wall’

Middle English wal

English wall

Today it means

adj Made from lightweight flexible materials.

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

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