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Where does “surveyor” come from?

Surveyor comes from Anglo-Norman surveour, from Old French -our, a suffix forming agent nouns from verbs.

surveyor (English): A person occupied with surveying -- the process...

Definitions

  1. A person occupied with surveying -- the process...

Ancestry of “surveyor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishsurveyour—
2Anglo-Normansurveourinspector; overseer
3Old Frenchsorveor—

Words derived from “surveyor”

  • surveyorship
Every word from Old French sorveor →