English
truthmaker
From truth + maker.
Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō ‘truth, promise’
Proto-West Germanic *triuwiþu
Old English trēowþ ‘truth, good faith’
Middle English treuthe ‘loyalty, truth’
English truth
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
Today it means
noun That entity in virtue of which a truthbearer is true.
Sources
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