Etymology

cowriter

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Today it means: Someone who writes something together with one or more other people. Full definition →

English writer ← Middle English writer ← Old English wrītere
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Latinco-
  7. Englishco-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*wreyd-der.?
  9. Proto-Germanic*wrītaną
  10. Proto-West Germanic*wrītan
  11. Old Englishwrītan
  12. Old Englishwrītere
  13. Middle Englishwriter
  14. Englishwriter
  15. English todaycowriter

From co- + writer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.