English
loresman
Loresman comes from Middle English loresman ‘instructor, tutor, teacher’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500loresman‘instructor, tutor, teacher’
- Englishearliest quotation 1999same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500loresman‘instructor, tutor, teacher’
- Englishearliest quotation 1999same form
Earliest quotation: 1999, Lewis Turco: “An academician or other learned person who is the…”
Proto-Indo-European *leys- ‘to trace, to track’
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Proto-Germanic *laizō ‘teaching’
Proto-West Germanic *laiʀu
Old English lār ‘teaching, learning, education’
Middle English lore ‘Education or teaching’
English lore
Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human being, person, man’
Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person’
Old English mann ‘human being, person, man’
Middle English man
English man
Every English word from Middle English loresman
Today it means
noun An instructor or teacher of traditional wisdom.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English loresman / loresman