Etymology

barman

B3A1R1M3A1N1

Today it means: A man who works in a bar. Full definition →

Middle English man ← Old English mann ← Proto-West Germanic *mann
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The story

  1. Vulgar Latin*barra
  2. Old Frenchbarre
  3. Middle Englishbarre
  4. Englishbar
  5. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  6. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  7. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  8. Old Englishmann
  9. Middle Englishman
  10. English todaybarman

From bar + -man.

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