Etymograph

English

tier

From tie + -er.

Another origin of tier

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*teraną‘to tear, snatch, tug’disputed
  2. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*tīrāre‘to pull, draw’uncertain
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400tirer‘to draw, draw out’uncertain
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400tire‘rank, sequence, order, kind’
  5. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600tier
  6. Englishtodaytier

Today it means

noun One who ties (knots, etc.).

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “tier”. 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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