Where does “hander” come from?
I need to work through this chain carefully, but I notice some significant issues:
1. The chain appears corrupted or incorrectly assembled - "hand" to "兒" (Chinese for "child") doesn't make etymological sense
2. The chain then jumps to French "-er" and Latin verbal/nominal suffixes, which are Romance language elements unrelated to Germanic "hand"
3. The final steps (PIE ḱwṓ and Proto-Italic -os) don't align with the earlier elements
4. The "known meaning" is listed as unknown, making it impossible to weave in sense development
This chain cannot support a reliable etymology for "hander" as presented. I cannot write an accurate one-sentence summary because the etymological data itself appears fundamentally flawed or represents multiple unrelated words conflated together.
I would need either:
- A corrected chain showing actual linguistic descent for "
hander (English): One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in...
Definitions
- One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in...
Ancestry of “hander”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 2 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 3 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 4 | Latin | -āre | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |