English
trainyard
From train + yard.
Latin trahō ‘to pull, to draw’
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Vulgar Latin *traginō
Old French trainer ‘to pull out, to draw’
Old French train ‘a delay, a drawing out’
Middle English trayne ‘train’
English train
Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- ‘to enclose’
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Proto-Germanic *gardaz ‘enclosure’
Proto-West Germanic *gard ‘enclosure’
Old English ġeard ‘yard’
Middle English yerd ‘the property surrounding an estate or manor’
English yard
Today it means
noun railyard
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “trainyard”. 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.
Etymograph / trainyard