Etymology

sander

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Today it means: A person employed to sand wood. Full definition →

English sand ← Middle English sond ← Old English sand
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sámdʰos?
  2. Proto-Germanic*samdaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*samd
  4. Old Englishsand
  5. Middle Englishsond
  6. Englishsand
  7. English todaysander

From sand + -er.

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