Where does “mender” come from?
Mender derives from English mend plus the agent suffix -er, with mend coming from Old French -er, which developed from Latin -are, ultimately rooted in Latin ex meaning out or away.
mender (English): A person who mends
Definitions
- A person who mends
Ancestry of “mender”, step by step
mender traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English mend
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mend | A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired... |
| 2 | Middle English | menden | cure |
| 3 | Middle English | amenden | to amend |
| 4 | Old French | amender | to correct; to set right; to fix; to repair; to... |
| 5 | Latin | ēmendō | to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure |
| 6 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 7 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 8 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 9 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 14 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 15 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 16 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 17 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |
via English ER
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 2 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 4 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 5 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |