Etymology

stableman

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Today it means: A person employed to take care of horses in a stable. Full definition →

Middle English man ← Old English mann ← Proto-West Germanic *mann
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sth₂dʰlóm
  3. Proto-Italic*staðlom
  4. Latinstab(u)lum
  5. Anglo-Normanstable
  6. Middle Englishstable
  7. Englishstable
  8. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  9. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  10. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  11. Old Englishmann
  12. Middle Englishman
  13. English todaystableman

From stable + -man.

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