threshold
The origin and history of threshold.
Etymology
From Old English þresċold, "doorsill" — related to thresh (to beat grain), since a threshold was once literally the beaten, trodden strip of floor at a doorway.
The origin and history of threshold.
From Old English þresċold, "doorsill" — related to thresh (to beat grain), since a threshold was once literally the beaten, trodden strip of floor at a doorway.