Where does “sponsee” come from?

sponsee (English) comes from English sponsor, from Latin sponsor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

sponsee (English): One who is sponsored

Definitions

  1. One who is sponsored

Ancestry of “sponsee”, step by step

sponsee traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English sponsor

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsponsorA person or organisation with some sort of...
2Latinsponsora bondsman, surety
3Latin-tor-er
4Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
5Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
6Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

via English EE

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishEEInitialism of electrical engineering
2Cantonese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-sEvery word from Latin -torEvery word from Latin sponsor
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