English

signmaker

From sign + maker.

A compound of sign + maker

Proto-Italic *segnom

Latin signum ‘a mark’

Old English seġn ‘sign’

Middle English signe

English sign

Old English macian ‘to perform or carry out (a miracle)’

Middle English maken ‘to make or create’

Middle English maker ‘God as creator of all’

English maker

Today it means

noun A maker of signs.

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

Etymograph / signmaker