Where does “Zeitungsverträger” come from?

Zeitungsverträger (German) comes from German Zeitung, from Middle Dutch tīdinge.

Zeitungsverträger (German): newsboy, newspaper deliverer male or of unspecified sex

Definitions

  1. newsboy, newspaper deliverer male or of unspecified sex

Ancestry of “Zeitungsverträger”, step by step

Zeitungsverträger traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Zeitung

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanZeitungnewspaper; tidings, news
2Middle Dutchtīdinge

via German Verträger

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanVerträger
Every word from Middle Dutch tīdinge