Where does “hitter” come from?
Hitter comes from English hit plus the agent suffix -er, derived from Old French -er and Latin -āre (infinitive marker) and -ārius (agent noun suffix), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *key- (to set in motion).
hitter (English): Agent noun of hit; one who hits; One who comes up...
Definitions
- Agent noun of hit; one who hits; One who comes up...
Ancestry of “hitter”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | hit | "To strike."; To manage to touch in the right... |
| 2 | Middle English | hit | Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it;... |
| 3 | Old English | hit | it |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | hit | nominative/accusative singular neuter of *hiz |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe- | demonstrative particle; here; this, here |