Etymology

shearer

S1H4E1A1R1E1R1

Today it means: A person employed to remove the wool from animals, such as sheep. using shears. Full definition →

English shear ← Middle English scheren ← Old English sċieran
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)ker-
  2. Proto-Germanic*skeraną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*skeran
  4. Old Englishsċieran
  5. Middle Englishscheren
  6. Englishshear
  7. English todayshearer

From shear + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.