Where does “roadmender” come from?
roadmender (English) comes from English mender, from English mend, from Middle English menden, from Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō — a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden...
roadmender (English): One who repairs roads
Definitions
- One who repairs roads
Ancestry of “roadmender”, step by step
roadmender traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English mender
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mender | A person who mends |
| 2 | English | mend | A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired... |
| 3 | Middle English | menden | cure |
| 4 | Middle English | amenden | to amend |
| 5 | Old French | amender | to correct; to set right; to fix; to repair; to... |
| 6 | Latin | ēmendō | to free from faults, correct, improve, remedy, amend, revise, cure |
| 7 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 8 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 9 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 10 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 15 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 16 | Middle Dutch | kitte | a wooden vessel made of hooped staves; wooden... |
via English road
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | road | A way used for travelling between places,... |
| 2 | Middle English | rode | A cross or gibbet; The cross of Christ; The cross... |
| 3 | Old English | rād | road; riding, hostile incursion; riding, road |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | raidu | riding, ride |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | raidō | ride, journey; name of the R-rune |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | rīdaną | to ride |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | rēydʰ- | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |