Etymograph

English

kindergärtner

Kindergärtner comes from German Kindergärtner ‘kindergarten teacher’, and goes back to Kindergarten ‘nursery school’.

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentKindergarten‘nursery school’
  2. German, derivedc. 1650–presentKindergärtner‘kindergarten teacher’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1886kindergärtner

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentKindergarten‘nursery school’
  2. German, derivedc. 1650–presentKindergärtner‘kindergarten teacher’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1886kindergärtner

Earliest quotation: 1886, Angeline Brooks, The Theory of [Friedrich] Fröbel’s Kindergarten System: “A few years ago Miss Blow, of St. Louis,…”

The story

The other sense is not used in German.

Linked words

through German Kindergarten ‘nursery school’

kindergarten, 1 more

Today it means

noun —

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Etymograph / German Kindergarten / kindergärtner

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