Sunday, November 4, 2012

Etymology of the wire hanger


English: a wire hanger - a wire clothes hanger - a wire coat hanger

wire - metal in the form of a usually very flexible thread or slender rod.
hanger - a shoulder-shaped frame with a hook at the top, derives from the verb to hang, meaning one that hangs or causes to be hung or hanged.

Italian: gruccia fil di ferro (gruccia: hanger, fil di ferro: iron wire)
French: cintre en fil de fer (cintre: hanger, en fil de fer: of iron wire)
German: drahtbügel (draht: wire, bügel: hanger)
Russian: проволочная вешалка [provolochnaya veshalka] (проволочная: of wire, вешалка: hanger)

 

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