Etymograph

English

Pinter

Pinter comes from Hungarian Pintér ‘cooper’, and goes back to Bavarian binder.

  1. Bavarianmodernbinder
  2. HungarianmodernPintér‘cooper’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1999Pinter

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Bavarianmodernbinder
  2. HungarianmodernPintér‘cooper’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1999Pinter

Earliest quotation: 1999, Anthony Horowitz et al., Strangler's Wood: “I did Pinter for GCSE. I didn't understand it…”

Today it means

name A surname from Hungarian.

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

Etymograph / Bavarian binder / Pinter