English
hedger
Hedger comes from Middle English hegger.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hegger
- Englishearliest quotation 1922hedger
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500hegger
- Englishearliest quotation 1922hedger
Earliest quotation: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals: “But what of that vast number of the human…”
Formed from hedge + -er
Proto-Indo-European *kagʰ- ‘to keep, enclose’
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Proto-Germanic *hagjō
Proto-West Germanic *haggju
Old English heċġ ‘fence’
Middle English hegge ‘a hedge’
English hedge
Every English word from Middle English hegger
Today it means
noun One who makes or mends hedges.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English hegger / hedger