Where does “tremour” come from?
tremour (Anglo-Norman) comes from Old French tremor, from Latin tremor, from Latin tremō, from Proto-Italic tremō, from Proto-Indo-European trem-, from Proto-Indo-European ter-, from Italian termine, from Latin terminus — boundary, end.
Ancestry of “tremour”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | tremor | terror; great fear |
| 2 | Latin | tremor | trembling, quaking, tremor; first-person singular... |
| 3 | Latin | tremō | to tremble, shake, shudder at |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | tremō | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | trem- | to tremble |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ter- | tender, weak; young creature |
| 7 | Italian | termine | end, close; limit, term, date, time; term, word |
| 8 | Latin | terminus | a boundary, limit, end |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | termenos | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | térmn̥ | boundary, end |