Where does “lamestreamer” come from?

lamestreamer (English) comes from English lamestream, from English mainstream, from English stream, from Middle English streem, from Middle English strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic straum, from Proto-Germanic straumaz — to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together.

lamestreamer (English): A mainstreamer

Definitions

  1. A mainstreamer

Ancestry of “lamestreamer”, step by step

lamestreamer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English lamestream

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlamestreamMainstream
2EnglishmainstreamUsed or accepted broadly rather than by small...
3EnglishstreamA small river; a large creek; a body of moving...
4Middle EnglishstreemAlternative form of strem
5Middle EnglishstremA waterbody; a region of the world containing...
6Old Englishstrēamcurrent; stream
7Proto-West Germanicstraumstream
8Proto-Germanicstraumazstream, current, river
9Proto-Indo-Europeansrowmosriver
10Proto-Indo-Europeansrew-to flow, stream
11Proto-Indo-Europeanser-to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together

via English ER

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishERThe statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of...
2Turkisherearly; brave; man, male
3Ottoman Turkishایرsaddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal
4Old Anatolian Turkishایرearly, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event
5Proto-Turkicēdersaddle
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ser-