Etymology

funnyman

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Today it means: comedian Full definition →

Middle English man ← Old English mann ← Proto-West Germanic *mann
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The story

  1. Englishfun
  2. Englishfunny
  3. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  4. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  5. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  6. Old Englishmann
  7. Middle Englishman
  8. English todayfunnyman

From funny + -man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.