Etymology

lodger

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Today it means: A person who lodges in another's house (compare tenant). Full definition →

English lodge ← Middle English logge ← Old French loge
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*lewbʰ-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*laubą
  3. Proto-West Germanic*laub
  4. Frankish*laubijā
  5. Early Medieval Latinlaubia
  6. Old Frenchloge
  7. Middle Englishlogge
  8. Englishlodge
  9. English todaylodger

From lodge + -er.

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