Etsian

English

Etymology

From Etsy +‎ -ian (“one from, belonging to”); Etsy was named in June 2005 by co-founder Robert Kalin as a nonsense word inspired by the Italian phrase eh, si (“huh, yes”), which he repeatedly heard in the film 8½ (1963) and erroneously transcribed as etsi.

Noun

Etsian (plural Etsians)

1. A seller on the American e-commerce service Etsy.
   • 2013, Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 73:

     Etsying, as any Etsian (as Etsy sellers call themselves) will tell you, is a highly addictive pastime.

   • 2015, Michele White, quoting mommymogul, Producing Women: The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 37:

     She "quit" her "day job' to dedicate more time" to her "family" and "business." mommymogul [Esty user] hopes to "grow" her "business to the point" that she "can quit" her "day job (like so many of the stories" she has "read about fellow etsians)."^[sic]

   • 2018, Lydia Maria Arantes, “Mapping Etsy: Reflections on (Spatial) Relations in an E-Commerce for Handmade Things”, in Clare Burke, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, editor, Crafting in the World: Materiality in the Making, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:

     This feeling of being a part of a global movement is to a great extent enabled by the spatial quality of Etsy, being both locally and globally embedded. Etsy's spatial dimensions are thus a key characteristic of this global movement toward sustainability, as it is referred to by Etsians.