Etymograph

English

sciage

Sciage comes from French sciage ‘the act or the product of sawing’, and goes back to scier.

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentscier1
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentsciage2‘the act or the product of sawing’
  3. Englishtodaysciage2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, French sciage
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English sciage

Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Frenchc. 1600–presentscierWiktionary, French sciage
  2. Frenchc. 1600–presentsciageWiktionary, English sciage‘the act or the product of sawing’
  3. EnglishtodaysciageWiktionary, English sciage

Every English word from French scier

Today it means

noun A back-and-forth sawing movement of the hand in massage.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sciage”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for French sciage. 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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