English

homedebtor

From home + debtor.

A compound of home + debtor

Proto-Germanic *haimaz ‘home, village’

Proto-West Germanic *haim ‘home’

Old English hām ‘home’

Middle English hom ‘home’

English home

Latin debitor

Old French detour

Middle English dettour ‘one who is indebted to another’

Today it means

noun One whose unpaid mortgage on a house exceeds the house's resale value.

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

Etymograph / homedebtor