Where does “merit badger” come from?
merit badger (English) comes from English merit badge, from English merit, from Middle English merit, from Anglo-Norman merit, from Old French merite, from Latin meritum, from Latin meritus, from Latin mereō — to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to...
merit badger (English): A Boy Scout who is pursuing a certain merit badge...
Definitions
- A Boy Scout who is pursuing a certain merit badge...
Ancestry of “merit badger”, step by step
merit badger traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English merit badge
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | merit badge | An award earned by youth members of the Boy... |
| 2 | English | merit | A claim to commendation or a reward; A mark or... |
| 3 | Middle English | merit | — |
| 4 | Anglo-Norman | merit | — |
| 5 | Old French | merite | merit |
| 6 | Latin | meritum | merit, service, deserts; value, reward, benefit,... |
| 7 | Latin | meritus | earned, deserved, obtained, due, proper, right,... |
| 8 | Latin | mereō | to deserve, merit |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)mer- | to fall into thinking, remember, care for; to... |
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 |