Etymology

juggler

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Today it means: A person who practices juggling (trick of throwing and catching balls or similar). Full definition →

Middle English jogeler ← Old English ġeogolere ← Anglo-Norman jogelour
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromjongleur“juggler”
  2. Anglo-Norman · derived fromjogelour
  3. Old English · inherited fromġeogolere“juggler; magician; wizard”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromjogeler
  5. English todayjuggler

From Middle English jogeler, jogelour, iogular, partly continuing Old English ġeogolere (“juggler; magician; wizard”) and partly from Anglo-Norman jogelour, jugelur, Old French jongleur (“juggler”), equivalent to juggle + -er. Doublet of jongleur.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishjogeler all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.