Souler

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who fits or attaches new soles to footwear as part of shoe repair or manufacture
2. A worker, often a cobbler, whose job is to put replacement bottoms onto shoes and boots
3. Someone who fits the underside layer to a shoe, usually while mending or making footwear

Etymology: "Souler" is a simple formation: the noun "soul" with the agent suffix "-er," meaning one who or that which does something with a soul. The "soul" half traces back through Middle English "soule" and Old English "sāwol" to a Proto-Germanic root shared with the German "Seele," so it is an inherited Germanic word rather than a Latin import. The "-er" ending has a longer journey. It descends from a Latin suffix "-arius," which passed into Proto-Germanic and then into Old English as "-ere," and reached Middle English as "-er" with help from Old French "-ier." Its job is to name a person or thing associated with a noun, as in "baker" or "teacher," so the word attaches that role to the soul.