Etymograph

English

Londoner

Londoner comes from Old English Lunden ‘London’, and goes back to Latin Londinium.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CELondinium
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150Lunden‘London’
  3. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150Lundenware
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Londonere
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2012Londoner

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CELondinium
  2. Old Englishc. 450–1150Lunden‘London’
  3. Old English, derivedc. 450–1150Lundenware
  4. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500Londonere
  5. Englishearliest quotation 2012Londoner

Earliest quotation: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube: “But the raw material that the Underground had to…”

Formed from London + -er ‘inhabitant of’

Old English Lunden

Middle English Londene

Middle English Londoun

English London

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- ‘heath’

land, lawn, lend, lasagna, lumbar, loma, loin, 12 more

Today it means

noun A person from, or an inhabitant of, London.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin Londinium / Londoner

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