Etymology

lobsterman

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Today it means: A fisherman (male or female) for lobsters. Full definition →

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

  1. Old Englishloppestre
  2. Middle Englishloppestere
  3. Englishlobster
  4. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  5. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  6. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  7. Old Englishmann
  8. Middle Englishman
  9. English todaylobsterman

From lobster + -man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.