English
recordholder
From record + holder.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱerd- ‘heart’
…
Latin recordor ‘to remember, call to mind’
Old French recorder ‘to register, to recall’
Old French record
Middle English recorde
English record
Proto-Germanic *haldaną ‘to hold, to keep’
Proto-West Germanic *haldan ‘to hold’
Old English healdan ‘to hold fast, to grasp’
Middle English holden ‘to hold’
English hold
English holder
Today it means
noun One who keeps records or documents.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “recordholder”. 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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