Etymology

writer

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Today it means: A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themselves as "the writer". Full definition →

Middle English writer ← Old English wrītere ← Proto-West Germanic *wrītan
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writer · noun1

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wreyd-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*wrītaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wrītan
  4. Old Englishwrītan
  5. Old Englishwrītere
  6. Middle Englishwriter
  7. English todaywriter

From Middle English writer, writere, from Old English wrītere (“draughtsman; painter; writer; scribe; copyist”) and ġewritere (“writer; composer”), equivalent to write + -er. Cognate with Icelandic ritari (“clerk, secretary”), Faroese ritari (“clerk, secretary”).

Writer · proper noun2

From writer.

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