The story
- Old English · derived fromsolor
- Middle English · derived fromsoler“upper floor of a house”
- English todaySollars
From Middle English soler (“upper floor of a house”), from Old English solor, probably an occupational surname for a servant whose duties were centered in the upper part of a house.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishsolor all →
solar
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.