English

record keeper

From record + keeper.

A compound of record + keeper

Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- ‘heart’

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Latin recordor ‘to remember, call to mind’

Old French recorder ‘to register, to recall’

Old French record

Middle English recorde

Middle English kepere

The story

In the crystal sense, coined by Katrina Raphaell.

noun A keeper of records; one in charge of recordkeeping.

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

Etymograph / record keeper