English
javelineer
Javelineer comes from Middle French javelinier.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600javelinier
- Englishearliest quotation 1851javelineer
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600javelinier
- Englishearliest quotation 1851javelineer
Earliest quotation: 1851, Henry William Herbert, The Captains of the Old World: “As it now is, the enemy outshoot and outsling…”
Equivalent to javelin + -eer
Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- ‘to grab, take’
Gaulish gabulum
Vulgar Latin *gabalus
Old French javelline ‘a type of long, thin, spear used as a weapon’
Middle English chafeveleyn
English javelin
Every English word from Middle French javelinier
Today it means
noun A soldier who throws a javelin.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French javelinier / javelineer