Etymograph

English

quiltmaker

Quiltmaker comes from Middle English quilte maker.

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500quilte maker1
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2007quiltmaker1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English quiltmaker
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2007, Noam Cohen, In Douglass Tribute, Slave Folklore and Fact Collide: “It was based on the recollections of Ozella McDaniel…”.

Lineage

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500quilte makerWiktionary, English quiltmaker
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2007quiltmakerWiktionary, English quiltmaker. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2007, Noam Cohen, In Douglass Tribute, Slave Folklore and Fact Collide: “It was based on the recollections of Ozella McDaniel…”

A compound of quilt + maker

Latin culcita ‘mattress, bedding, pillow, cushion’

Anglo-Norman quilte

Middle English quilte ‘a quilt’

English quilt

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

Every English word from Middle English quilte maker

Today it means

noun A maker of quilts.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “quiltmaker”. 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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