Etymology

starter

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Today it means: Someone who starts, or who starts something. Full definition →

English start ← Middle English sterten ← Old English styrtan
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*sturtijan
  2. Old Englishstyrtan
  3. Middle Englishsterten
  4. Englishstart
  5. English todaystarter

From start + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.