Where does “speechwriter” come from?
Speechwriter is a compound of English speech and writer, ultimately deriving from Proto-Indo-European (s)per-, meaning to sprinkle or scatter.
speechwriter (English): someone who writes speeches for others,...
Definitions
- someone who writes speeches for others,...
Ancestry of “speechwriter”, step by step
speechwriter traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English speech
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | speech | The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or... |
| 2 | Middle English | speche | speaking, speech; dialogue, discussion,... |
| 3 | Old English | spǣċ | — |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *sprāku | speech, language |
via English writer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | writer | A person who writes, or produces literary work;... |
| 2 | Middle English | writer | A draughtsman, or copyist; one who notes down the... |
| 3 | Old English | wrītere | writer, scribe; draughtsman; painter; writer;... |
Words derived from “speechwriter”