Talk:machina

Etymology scriptorium convo

 * Etymology_scriptorium/2017/May

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

Etymology

 * AHD:machine traces to mākhanā (=), indicating it to be a variant of mēkhanē (=).
 * etymonline.com:machine traces to makhana (=), indicating it to be a variant of mēkhanē (=).
 * M-W:machine traces to mēchanē (=), indicating machana (=) as Doric, tracing mēchanē further to mēchos.
 * Collins:machine traces to mākhanā (=), relating it to makhos.
 * oxforddictionaries.com:machine 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)