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seller

The origin and history of seller.

Etymology

Comes from Middle English seller, sellere (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell plus -er in its agent-noun sense (sense 1) and sell plus -er in its patient sense (sense 2). It is a cognate of Danish sælger, Swedish säljare and Icelandic seljari ("a seller; dealer").

Origin: Middle English

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