Etymology

shopper

S1H4O1P3P3E1R1

Today it means: A person who shops. Full definition →

English shop ← Middle English schoppe ← Old English scoppa
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*skup-
  2. Old Englishscoppa
  3. Middle Englishschoppe
  4. Englishshop
  5. English todayshopper

From shop + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.