Etymology

smelter

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Today it means: A person employed to do smelting. Full definition →

English smelt ← Middle English smelt ← Old English smelt
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(s)meld-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(s)méldeti
  3. Proto-Germanic*smeltaną
  4. Proto-Germanic*smeltaz
  5. Proto-West Germanic*smelt
  6. Old Englishsmelt
  7. Middle Englishsmelt
  8. Englishsmelt
  9. English todaysmelter

From smelt + -er.

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