English
resultset
From result + set.
Latin saliō ‘to jump, leap’
Latin resiliō ‘to rebound’
Medieval Latin resultō ‘to spring back, result’
Middle English resulten
English result
Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’
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Proto-Germanic *satjaną ‘to set’
Proto-West Germanic *sattjan ‘to set’
Old English settan ‘to set’
Middle English setten ‘to seat’
English set
Today it means
noun A set, often of tabulated data, that is the result of the querying of a database or a similar act.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “resultset”. 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.
Etymograph / resultset