English
scaleboardscaleboard
From scale + board.
A compound of scale + board
Proto-Indo-European *skend- ‘to jump up, ascend’
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
Proto-Italic *skand-slā
Latin scāla ‘ladder; stairs’
Middle English scale ‘ladder’
English scale
Proto-Germanic *burdą ‘board’
Proto-West Germanic *bord ‘board’
Old English bord ‘board’
Middle English boord
English board
Today it means
noun A thin slip of wood used to justify a page.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “scaleboard”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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