Where does “drawee” come from?
Drawee comes from English draw with the French agent suffix -é, from Old English dragan meaning to pull or drag, with Latin -atus and Proto-Indo-European dʰreǵ- meaning to draw.
drawee (English): The party directed to pay the amount of a draft...
Definitions
- The party directed to pay the amount of a draft...
Ancestry of “drawee”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -ee | Added to transitive verbs to form words meaning a... |
| 2 | French | -ée | Forming feminine nouns having the sense of... |
| 3 | Middle French | -ee | — |
| 4 | Latin | -eus | argentum + API → argenteus; ferrum + API →... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -εῖος | Forms adjectives, usually with a meaning of "of"... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -iHwós | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -wós | Creates adjectives from verb stems |