English
householder
Householder comes from Middle English housholdere.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500housholdere
- Englishearliest quotation 1849–1861householder
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500housholdere
- Englishearliest quotation 1849–1861householder
Earliest quotation: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, London: Longman: “towns in which almost every householder was an English…”
The story
The Buddhist sense is a semantic loan from Pali gahapati (literally “house-master”).
Every English word from Middle English housholdere
Today it means
noun The owner of a house.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English housholdere / householder