Etymology

filmer

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Today it means: One who films with a camera. Full definition →

English film ← Middle English filme ← Old English filmen
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pel-
  2. Proto-Germanic*felma-
  3. Proto-Germanic*filmīn-
  4. Old Englishfilmen
  5. Middle Englishfilme
  6. Englishfilm
  7. English todayfilmer

From film + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.