Etymology

forester

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Today it means: A person who practices forestry. Full definition →

Middle English forester ← Old French forestier
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromforestier
  2. Middle English · inherited fromforester
  3. English todayforester

Inherited from Middle English forester, a borrowing from Old French forestier, from forest + -ier; equivalent to forest + -er. Displaced native Old English wuduweard.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.