Talk:machina

Etymology scriptorium convo

• Wiktionary:Etymology_scriptorium/2017/May#machina

--Barytonesis (talk) 04:24, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

Etymology

• AHD:machine[1] traces machina to mākhanā (=μαχανά (makhaná)), indicating it to be a variant of mēkhanē (=μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)).
• etymonline.com:machine[2] traces machina to makhana (=μαχανά (makhaná)), indicating it to be a variant of mēkhanē (=μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)).
• M-W:machine[3] traces machina to mēchanē (=μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)), indicating machana (=μαχανά (makhaná)) as Doric, tracing mēchanē further to mēchos.
• Collins:machine[4] traces machina to mākhanā (=μαχανά (makhaná)), relating it to makhos.
• oxforddictionaries.com:machine[5] traces unnamed Latin form to Doric Greek makhana, which it relates to Greek mēkhanē, tracing it to mēkhos.

--Dan Polansky (talk) 11:11, 30 December 2018 (UTC)