The story
- Old English · inherited fromhordere“a treasurer, steward, chamberlain”
- Middle English · inherited fromhorder
- English todayhoarder
From Middle English horder, hordere (“a keeper of a store of goods”), from Old English hordere (“a treasurer, steward, chamberlain”), equivalent to hoard + -er.
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishhorder all →
Horder
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.