Etymology

muledriver

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Today it means: Someone who drives a mule or a team of mules, especially one who does so as their occupation. Full definition →

English driver ← Middle English drivere ← Old English mūl
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*musklos?
  2. Latinmūlus
  3. Latinmūla
  4. Anglo-Normanmule
  5. Latinmūlus
  6. Proto-West Germanic*mūl
  7. Old Englishmūl
  8. Middle Englishmule
  9. Englishmule
  10. Middle Englishdriven
  11. Middle Englishdrivere
  12. Englishdriver
  13. English todaymuledriver

From mule + driver.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.