## Meanings
1. A person who offers to do something, often without being paid.
2. To offer to do something willingly.
3. To offer information without being asked.
4. To offer someone else's services for a task.

## Examples
- The volunteers meet every Sunday to help at the nature reserve.
- I volunteered to drive our guests home.
- She volunteered an explanation before anyone could ask.
- My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.

## Derived Forms
- volunteering
- volunteerism
- volunteerly
- volunteership
- voluntell

## Related Forms
- voluntarism
- voluntarist

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *welh₁-
- Root: voluntārius
- Affix: -eer - one who is concerned with

## Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, voluntary”); or from voluntary + -eer.

## AI Etymology
Volunteer is borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, voluntary”); or from voluntary + -eer. Important historical forms include Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-, and Latin voluntārius. In present-day use, it can mean a person who offers to do something, often without being paid, or to offer to do something willingly. Derived formations include volunteering, volunteerism, volunteerly, volunteership, voluntell.

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- People & Society

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