Where does “stalker” come from?

Stalker comes from Middle English stalkere, of unknown ultimate origin.

stalker (English): A person who engages in stalking, i.e. quietly...

Definitions

  1. A person who engages in stalking, i.e. quietly...

Ancestry of “stalker”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishstalkere—
2Irish-aire-er, -or
3Old Irish-aireAgentive affix, similar to English -er, -or
4Old French-aire—
5Latin-āriuser
6Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “stalker”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →