Etymology

householder

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Today it means: The owner of a house. Full definition →

Middle English housholdere ← Pali gahapati
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  1. Pali · semantic loan fromgahapati
  2. Middle English · inherited fromhousholdere
  3. English todayhouseholder

From Middle English housholdere, equivalent to household + -er. The Buddhist sense is a semantic loan from Pali gahapati (literally “house-master”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.