Where does “upskirter” come from?

upskirter (English) comes from English upskirt, from English up, from Middle English up, from Old English upp, from Proto-West Germanic *upp.

upskirter (English): A person who takes upskirt photographs or video footage

Definitions

  1. A person who takes upskirt photographs or video footage

Ancestry of “upskirter”, step by step

upskirter traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English upskirt

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishupskirtDesignating a voyeuristic image of the view up a...
2EnglishupAway from the surface of the Earth or other...
3Middle Englishupto a vertical axis
4Old Englishuppup; upstairs
5Proto-West Germanic*upp

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-West Germanic *uppEvery word from Old English uppEvery word from Middle English up