English

fireperson

From fire + person.

A compound of fire + person

Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥

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Proto-Germanic *fuïr

Proto-West Germanic *fuir

Old English fȳr ‘fire’

Middle English fyr

English fire

Latin persōna ‘mask; character, role’

Anglo-Norman parsone

Middle English persoun

Today it means

noun A firefighter of any gender.

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

Etymograph / fireperson