Etymology

modeller

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English model ← Middle French modelle ← Old Italian modello
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*med-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*médos
  3. Proto-Italic*medos
  4. Latinmodus
  5. Late Latinmodulus
  6. Vulgar Latin*modellus
  7. Old Italianmodello
  8. Middle Frenchmodelle
  9. Englishmodel
  10. English todaymodeller

From model + -er.

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