English
souter
Souter comes from Latin sūtor ‘shoemaker, cobbler’, from suō ‘to sew, stitch, join, fasten together’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *sūō.
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sūō‘to sew, stitch’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuō‘to sew, stitch, join, fasten together’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūtor‘shoemaker, cobbler’
- Old Englishc. 450–1150sūtere‘shoemaker’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500soutere‘a shoemaker’
- Englishearliest quotation 1527souter
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sūō‘to sew, stitch’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsuō‘to sew, stitch, join, fasten together’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEsūtor‘shoemaker, cobbler’
- Old Englishc. 450–1150sūtere‘shoemaker’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500soutere‘a shoemaker’
- Englishearliest quotation 1527souter
Earliest quotation: 1527, William Tyndale: “There is no work better than another to please…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *syewH- ‘to sew’
sew, seam, sutra, hymen, sutta, 7 more
through Latin suō ‘to sew, stitch, join, fasten together’
Today it means
noun A shoemaker or cobbler.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Italic *sūō / souter