Etymograph

English

puppetman

From puppet + man.

A compound of puppet + man

Middle English popet ‘a small or young person’

English puppet

Proto-Germanic *mann- ‘human being, person, man’

Proto-West Germanic *mann ‘person’

Old English mann ‘human being, person, man’

Middle English man

English man

Today it means

noun A puppeteer, especially a master of a puppet show.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “puppetman”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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