Etymology

aper

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Today it means: Someone who apes something Full definition →

English ape ← Middle English ape ← Old English apa
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*apô
  3. Proto-West Germanic*apō
  4. Old Englishapa
  5. Middle Englishape
  6. Englishape
  7. English todayaper

From ape + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.