Where does “taperer” come from?

taperer (English) comes from English taper, from Middle English taper, from Old English tapor, from Latin papȳrus, from French -ine, from French -é, from Middle French -é, from Old French -é.

taperer (English): A person who carries a taper in a religious...

Definitions

  1. A person who carries a taper in a religious...

Ancestry of “taperer”, step by step

taperer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English taper

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtaperA slender wax candle; a small lighted wax candle;...
2Middle Englishtapertaper thin candle
3Old Englishtaportaper
4Latinpapȳruspapyrus plant
5French-inefeminine singular of -in; female equivalent of...
6Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular -er...
7Middle Frenchpast participle root verb suffix of regular; -ed, -en, -n
8Old Frenchused to form past participles of regular -er...
9Latin-asuffixed to the roots of verbs, forms agent...
10Proto-ItalicForms masculine agent nouns from prefixed or compounded bases
11Proto-Indo-European-éh₂

via English ER

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishERThe statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of...
2Turkisherearly; brave; man, male
3Ottoman Turkishایرsaddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal
4Old Anatolian Turkishایرearly, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event
5Proto-Turkicēdersaddle
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂