English
fearmonger
From fear + monger (“dealer in a specific commodity; (by extension) person promoting something undesirable”).
A compound of fear + monger ‘dealer in a specific commodity’
Proto-Indo-European *per- ‘to go through’
Proto-Germanic *fērō ‘danger’
Old English fǣr ‘calamity’
Middle English feer
English fear
Latin mangō ‘dealer, trader’
Proto-West Germanic *mangārī ‘dealer, merchant, monger’
Old English mangere ‘dealer, merchant, trader’
Middle English mongere ‘dealer, merchant, trader’
English monger
Today it means
noun Someone who spreads fear.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / fearmonger