Where does “collarmaker” come from?
collarmaker (English) comes from English collar, from Middle English coler, from Old French coler, from Latin collāre, from Latin collāris, from Latin collum, from Latin -is, from Latin -a.
collarmaker (English): Someone who makes collars
Definitions
- Someone who makes collars
Ancestry of “collarmaker”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | collar | Anything that encircles the neck; A piece of meat... |
| 2 | Middle English | coler | A piece of clothing or jewelry for around the... |
| 3 | Old French | coler | collar |
| 4 | Latin | collāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | collāris | — |
| 6 | Latin | collum | neck, throat; upper stem of a plant; servitude |
| 7 | Latin | -is | suffixed to the root of nouns in composition,... |
| 8 | Latin | -a | suffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -ā | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -éh₂ | — |