English

lockkeeper

From lock + keeper.

A compound of lock + keeper

Proto-Indo-European *lewg- ‘to bend’

Proto-Germanic *luką

Proto-West Germanic *lok ‘shutter’

Old English loc

Middle English lok

English lock

Middle English kepere

Today it means

noun A lockmaster; (sometimes) any locktender.

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

Etymograph / lockkeeper