Etymology

claimee

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Today it means: A person from whom something is claimed. Full definition →

English claim ← Middle English claimen ← Old French clamer
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The story

  1. Latinclamāre
  2. Old Frenchclamer
  3. Middle Englishclaimen
  4. Englishclaim
  5. English todayclaimee

From claim + -ee.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.