Etymology of the English word guardrail
the English word
guardrailderived from the English word
guardderived from the Old French word
gardederived from the Old French word
garderderived from the Proto-Indo-European root
*wer-derived from the Germanique root
*wardônderived from the Proto-Germanic root
*warthonderived from the English word
railderived from the Old French word
raillederived from the Old French word
reillederived from the Classical Latin word
regula (ruler, straight edge; basic principle)
using the Proto-Indo-European prefix
reg- (to move in a straight line)
Derivations in other languages
Italian
guardrailUsage
Word found in Modern English
