Etymology

engraver

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Today it means: a person who engraves Full definition →

English engrave ← Middle English grave ← Old French en-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Old Frenchen-
  6. Middle Englishen-
  7. Englishen-
  8. Middle Englishgrave
  9. Englishgrave
  10. Englishengrave
  11. English todayengraver

From engrave + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.