English
builder
Builder comes from Middle English byldere ‘a builder’, and goes back to Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan.
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*buþlijanreconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150bytlan‘to build’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bylden‘to erect, build, or create’
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500byldere‘a builder’
- Englishearliest quotation 1987builder
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*buþlijanreconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150bytlan‘to build’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500bylden‘to erect, build, or create’
- Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500byldere‘a builder’
- Englishearliest quotation 1987builder
Earliest quotation: 1987, Proceedings: “To cut coding time and to insure maintainability of…”
Equivalent to build + -er
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- ‘to become’
Proto-Germanic *buþlą
Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan ‘to build’
Old English byldan
Middle English bilden
English build
Every English word from Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan
Today it means
noun One who builds or constructs things.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *buþlijan / builder