Etymology

yearsman

Y4E1A1R1S1M3A1N1

Today it means: Someone employed for the period of one year. Full definition →

English man ← Middle English man ← Old English mann
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(H)yeh₁-der.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*yóh₁r̥
  3. Proto-Germanic*jērą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*jār
  5. Old Englishġēar
  6. Middle Englishyeer
  7. Englishyear
  8. Proto-Indo-European*mon-
  9. Proto-Germanic*mann-
  10. Proto-West Germanic*mann
  11. Old Englishmann
  12. Middle Englishman
  13. Englishman
  14. English todayyearsman

From year + -s- + man.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.