Etymology Explorer › Middle English

Where does “redar” come from?

redar (Middle English) comes from Old English rēdere, from Proto-West Germanic rādāri.

Ancestry of “redar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishrēdere—
2Proto-West Germanicrādāri—

Words derived from “redar”

  • reader
  • readership
  • readerly
  • newsreader
  • copyreader
  • nonreader
  • lipreader
  • readerboard
  • interreader
  • readerless
  • intrareader
  • playreader
  • readeress
  • unreaderly
  • microreader
  • scorereader
  • subreader
  • hyperreader
  • screen reader
  • readerdom
  • e-reader
  • feedreader
Every word from Proto-West Germanic rādāri →