Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA tool used to moor a vessel to the bottom of a sea or river to resist movement. · An iron device so shaped as to grip the bottom and hold a vessel at her berth by the chain or rope attached. · The combined anchoring gear (anchor, rode, bill/peak and fittings such as bitts, cat, and windlass.) · Representation of the nautical tool, used as a heraldic charge.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂enk-der.? Pre-Greekbor.? Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́γκῡρᾰ (ắnkūră)bor.? Latin ancorabor. Proto-Germanic *ankurô Proto-West Germanic *ankurō Old English ancor Middle English anker English anchor From Middle English anker, from Old English ancor, ancra, from Latin ancora, from (or cognate with) Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). The modern form is a sixteenth-century modification after the Medieval Latin spelling anchora. Doublet of ancora, anker, angora, and Ankara.
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