Where does “bashkëpunëtor” come from?

bashkëpunëtor (Albanian) comes from Albanian punëtor, from Albanian -tor, from Vulgar Latin -torius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

bashkëpunëtor (Albanian): co-worker, colleague; associate; collaborator

Definitions

  1. co-worker, colleague; associate; collaborator

Ancestry of “bashkëpunëtor”, step by step

bashkëpunëtor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Albanian punëtor

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Albanianpunëtorworker; laborer
2Albanian-torer
3Vulgar Latin-torius-ory
4Latin-tor-er
5Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
6Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
7Proto-Indo-European-tor-s

via Albanian bashkë

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Albanianbashkëtogether; simultaneously
2Proto-Albanianbaśkā
3Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰedh-skobundle, heap
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-sEvery word from Latin -torEvery word from Proto-Indo-European -tōr