English

subheap

From sub- + heap.

Formed from sub- + heap

Proto-Indo-European *upó ‘up; from below’

Proto-Italic *supo ‘under’

Latin sub ‘under, beneath, below’

English sub-

Proto-Indo-European *koupos ‘hill’

Proto-Germanic *haupaz ‘heap, pile’

Proto-West Germanic *haup ‘heap, pile’

Old English hēap

Middle English hepe ‘crowd, multitude, assembly’

English heap

Today it means

noun A heap (data structure) making up part of a larger heap.

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