Etymology

goalscorer

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Today it means: A person who scores a goal, or scores goals. Full definition →

English scorer ← Middle English score ← Old English scoru
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰeh₂-
  2. Proto-Germanic*gailō
  3. Proto-West Germanic*gailu
  4. Old English*gāl
  5. Middle Englishgol
  6. Englishgoal
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  8. Proto-Germanic*skurō
  9. Old Norseskor
  10. Old Englishscoru
  11. Middle Englishscore
  12. Englishscore
  13. Englishscorer
  14. English todaygoalscorer

From goal + scorer.

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