Etymology

bluesman

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Today it means: a male blues musician Full definition →

English man ← Middle English man ← Old English mann
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The story

  1. Englishblue
  2. Englishblues
  3. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  4. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  5. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  6. Old Englishmann
  7. Middle Englishman
  8. Englishman
  9. English todaybluesman

From blues + man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.