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Where does “woolsorter” come from?

woolsorter (English) comes from English sorter, from English sort, from Middle English sort, from Old French sorte, from Italian sorta, from Latin sors, from Latin legere, from Latin legō — to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...

woolsorter (English): A farmworker responsible for sorting wool into...

Definitions

  1. A farmworker responsible for sorting wool into...

Ancestry of “woolsorter”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsorterA person employed to sort; A machine or algorithm...
2EnglishsortA general type; Manner; form of being or acting;...
3Middle Englishsort—
4Old Frenchsortesort; type
5Italiansortasort, type, kind; feminine singular past...
6Latinsorsanything used to determine chances, lot; a...
7Latinlegeresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
8Latinlegō—
9Latinlēx—
10Proto-Italiclēg-—
11Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-s—
12Proto-Indo-Europeanleǵ-to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to...
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