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Where does “newspaperman” come from?

Newspaperman comes from English newspaper and English man, where newspaper derives from Latin papyrus via Ancient Greek πάπυρος, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots meaning paper and man respectively.

newspaperman (English): A man who works in the production of the text of...

Definitions

  1. A man who works in the production of the text of...

Ancestry of “newspaperman”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishnewspaperA publication, usually published daily or weekly...
2EnglishpaperA sheet material used for writing on or printing...
3Middle Englishpaperpaper; A text, message or note; something that is...
4Old Frenchpapierto murmur
5Old Catalanpaper—
6Latinpapȳrus—
7French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
8French-épast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
9Middle French-é—
10Old French-éused to form past participles of regular -er...
11Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
12Proto-Italic-ā—
13Proto-Indo-European-éh₂—
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