Where does “sewer” come from?

Sewer comes from Middle English -en, Chinese 兒, Latin -are, and Latin securus, ultimately tracing back through Latin formational elements to a root meaning "free from care."

sewer (English): A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human...

Definitions

  1. A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human...

Ancestry of “sewer”, step by step

sewer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English sew

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsewTo use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through...
2Middle EnglishsewAlternative form of sowe
3Old Englishseawsap, juice; moisture; humour
4Proto-West Germanic*sauwjuice

via Middle English sewer

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle EnglishsewerAlternative form of suren
2Anglo-Normansewerewater-course
3Old Frenchsewiereoverflow channel
4Latinexaquāria—

Words derived from “sewer”

Every word from Proto-West Germanic *sauw →Every word from Old English seaw →Every word from Middle English sew →