Where does “account holder” come from?
account holder (English) comes from English account, from Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte, from Old French aconte, from Old French aconter, from Old French conter, from Latin computō, from Latin com- — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
account holder (English): Someone who has an account, as with a bank
Definitions
- Someone who has an account, as with a bank
Ancestry of “account holder”, step by step
account holder traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English account
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | account | A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written... |
| 2 | Middle English | acounte | An enumeration or count; the act of counting |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | acunte | account; count; calculation; account; version of... |
| 4 | Old French | aconte | — |
| 5 | Old French | aconter | to tell; to inform of; to do the accounts |
| 6 | Old French | conter | to tell; to say; to recount; to add up |
| 7 | Latin | computō | to calculate, compute, reckon together |
| 8 | Latin | com- | allomorph of con- |
| 9 | Latin | con- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing... |
| 10 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 11 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 17 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 18 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 19 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 20 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 21 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via English Hölder
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Hölder | A thing that holds |
| 2 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 3 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 4 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 5 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 10 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |