Where does “vendor” come from?

vendor (Anglo-Norman) comes from Latin venditor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

Ancestry of “vendor”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvenditorsecond-person singular future passive imperative...
2Latin-tor-er
3Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
4Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
5Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “vendor”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin venditor →
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