Etymology

oxdriver

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Today it means: Someone who drives an ox or a yoke of oxen, especially one who does so as their occupation. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*uksḗn
  2. Proto-Germanic*uhsô
  3. Proto-West Germanic*ohsō
  4. Old Englishoxa
  5. Middle Englishoxe
  6. Englishox
  7. Middle Englishdriven
  8. Middle Englishdrivere
  9. Englishdriver
  10. English todayoxdriver

From ox + driver.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.