Bar people

[magid]

bartender
barman
barmaid
barrista*
barrister
barrater

* It feels like there ought to be a male version of this. Barristo? But not barriste, which should be a ballet dancer.

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[queue.livejournal.com]

barfly
bargainer
barterer
barker
barkeep

[magid.livejournal.com]

bargeman

[queue.livejournal.com]

barricader

[fairdice.livejournal.com]

barber

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

barracuda
bar mitzvah
bar Kochba

[magid.livejournal.com]

barracuda = person, not fish?

(*giggle* about the others, though once one gets to bar as a separate word in Hebrew, there's lots of possibilities.)

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, -ista isn't generally feminine. It's via Spanish and Latin from the Greek "-ιστης" which also gives us "-ist" via French "-iste". (You may have known that already.)

[cnoocy]

Sorry, that was me, being logged out randomly.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I didn't know the etymology already, so thank you. I think it's just that it looks feminine, which makes me want to back-construct a masculine form (yes, even though English is far less gendered than French, say, or Hebrew).

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

Um, what gives you the impression that barrista isn't already masculine?

[magid.livejournal.com]

It is (well, it's gender neutral). It just looks feminine to me. And I'm sure that when I became aware of the word, it kept being used to refer to women didn't help.