Etymograph

English

toolsuite

Compound of tool + suite.

A compound of tool + suite

Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- ‘to tie to, secure’

Proto-Germanic *tōlą ‘tool’

Old English tōl ‘tool’

Middle English tool ‘a tool’

English tool

Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- ‘to follow’

Middle French suite

English suite

The story

Attested from the 20th century (see quotations below).

Today it means

noun A set of related tools (software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations) that are distributed together.

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

Etymograph / toolsuite