Etymology

pitman

P3I1T1M3A1N1

Today it means: One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc. Full definition →

English pit ← Middle English pit ← Old English pytt
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*puti
  2. Old Englishpytt
  3. Middle Englishpit
  4. Englishpit
  5. English todaypitman

From pit + -man.

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