Etymology

pinsetter

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Today it means: The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling. Full definition →

English setter ← Middle English settere ← Old English settan
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*pinnaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*pinn
  3. Old Englishpinn
  4. Middle Englishpinne
  5. Englishpin
  6. Proto-Indo-European*sed-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*sodéyeti
  8. Proto-Germanic*satjaną
  9. Proto-West Germanic*sattjan
  10. Old Englishsettan
  11. Middle Englishsetten
  12. Middle Englishsettere
  13. Englishsetter
  14. English todaypinsetter

From pin + setter.

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