Where does “streamer” come from?
Streamer comes from Middle English stremere, formed with the Middle English agentive suffix -er from an Old French -er derivative of Latin -are verbs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ser-.
streamer (English): A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or...
Definitions
- A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or...
Ancestry of “streamer”, step by step
streamer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English stream
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | stream | A small river; a large creek; a body of moving... |
| 2 | Middle English | streem | Alternative form of strem |
| 3 | Middle English | strem | A waterbody; a region of the world containing... |
| 4 | Old English | strēam | current; stream |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | straum | stream |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | straumaz | stream, current, river |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | srowmos | river |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | srew- | to flow, stream |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ser- | to flow; to guard; to bind, to tie together |
via Middle English stremer
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | stremer | A flag used to identify one's loyalty; A part of... |