What is the proper way to say "queryer"

That is, the person who is querying.

The person who sends can be a sender, the person who receives can be a receiver. Similarly the person who responds (to a query) can be a responder.

But can the person who queries be a queryer?

I've thought about using initiator, but I'd prefer something more specific.

Thanks in advance.

Solution 1:

I don't like querier/queryer/queryist/querist at all. A century or two ago, querist was actually quite common - but it's massively declined since then, and sounds seriously "Victorian" to me.

I'd go with querent (also sometimes spelled querant) as the more "modern" usage...

EDIT: Also note from that chart (click on it to see the complete page which I can't reproduce here) that the forms queryer, queryist (spellings which were never common) are now both so rare they can't even be charted for the past half-century.

Solution 2:

I would propose:

• inquisitor
• inquirer
• questioner

Depending on the type of query you could be more specific as in auditor if the person is querying as part of an audit or auditing for example.

Solution 3:

Your problem is that you are spelling it wrong. It's querier, not queryer. However, I would say that it's pretty esoteric, and may not be understood in writing as much as it would be in speech.

A more appropriate term that would be understood by the masses might be inquirer.