tunneller
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Approach roads have been formed, and a new town to house 500 persons, including the engineers, tunnellers, outside workers and their families is being built."
- "Entering the tunnel, we pass a small shrine above our heads which contains a statue of St Barbara, the patron saint of tunnellers. It is traditional to have such shrines on every tunnel site."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *temh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *tend- Proto-Indo-European *tondeh₂ Proto-Celtic *tondā Gaulishbor.? Medieval Latin tunna Old French tone Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French tonelbor. Middle English tonnel English tunnel English -er English tunneller From tunnel + -er.
Usage
- British usage