Etymology

trendsetter

T1R1E1N1D2S1E1T1T1E1R1

Today it means: Someone who starts a trend, or makes something more popular. Full definition →

English setter ← Middle English settere ← Old English settan
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic*trandijan
  2. Old Englishtrendan
  3. Middle Englishtrenden
  4. Englishtrend
  5. Proto-Indo-European*sed-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*sodéyeti
  7. Proto-Germanic*satjaną
  8. Proto-West Germanic*sattjan
  9. Old Englishsettan
  10. Middle Englishsetten
  11. Middle Englishsettere
  12. Englishsetter
  13. English todaytrendsetter

From trend + setter.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.