Part of speech: Noun
a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat
Categories: Ballplayer, Baseball player
Part of speech: Noun
a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting
Categories: Cricketer
The word "fielder" comes from Old English feldeware, which comes from Middle English feldere.
field – A related word in the same word family.
er – A related word in the same word family.
Old English had grammatical genders for nouns, like German does today.