Where does “շոֆեր” come from?
շոֆեր (Armenian) comes from Russian шофёр, from French chauffeur, from French chauffer, from Middle French chauffer, from Old French chauffer, from Old French chaufer, from Vulgar Latin calefare, from Latin calefaciō.
շոֆեր (Armenian): driver
Ancestry of “շոֆեր”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Russian | шофёр | chauffeur; driver |
| 2 | French | chauffeur | stoker; fireman; driver; chauffeur |
| 3 | French | chauffer | to heat, to warm, to warm up; to tease, to entice... |
| 4 | Middle French | chauffer | — |
| 5 | Old French | chauffer | Alternative form of chaufer |
| 6 | Old French | chaufer | to heat; to heat up; to warm |
| 7 | Vulgar Latin | calefare | — |
| 8 | Latin | calefaciō | — |
| 9 | Latin | faciō | — |
| 10 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 11 | Latin | -tōrius | — |
| 12 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 13 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |