Etymograph

English

testbench

From test + bench.

A compound of test + bench

Latin testum ‘earthen vessel, earthen pot’

Old French test ‘an earthen vessel’

Middle English test

English test

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- ‘to break’

Proto-Germanic *bankiz

Proto-West Germanic *banki

Old English benċ

Middle English bench

English bench

Today it means

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