English

trackbarrow

track + barrow

A compound of track + barrow

Old French trac ‘track of horses’

Middle English trak

English track

Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ- ‘to rise up, ascend’

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Proto-Germanic *bergaz ‘hill, mountain’

Proto-West Germanic *berg ‘hill, mountain’

Old English beorg ‘mountain, hill, mound, barrow, burial place’

Middle English berwe

Today it means

noun A kind of wheelbarrow with a flanged and angled wheel, designed to be pushed along a railroad track.

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

Etymograph / trackbarrow