Etymology

maker

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Today it means: Someone who makes; a person or thing that makes or produces something. Full definition →

Middle English maker ← Old English macian ← Proto-West Germanic *makōn?
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  1. Proto-Germanic*makaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*mak
  3. Proto-West Germanic*makōn?
  4. Old Englishmacian
  5. Middle Englishmaken
  6. Middle Englishmaker
  7. English todaymaker

From Middle English maker, makere, equivalent to make + -er. Compare Scots makar, Saterland Frisian Moaker, West Frisian makker, Dutch maker, German Macher, Danish mager, Swedish makare. Doublet of makar.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.