Where does “seugre” come from?
seugre (Bourguignon) comes from Old French segre, from Vulgar Latin sequere, from Latin sequor, from Proto-Italic sekʷōr, from Proto-Indo-European sékʷetor, from Proto-Indo-European sekʷ- — to follow; to see; to say.
seugre (Bourguignon): to follow
Ancestry of “seugre”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Old French | segre | — |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | sequere | to follow; second-person singular future active... |
| 3 | Latin | sequor | I follow, come or go after |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | sekʷōr | follow, come/go after |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | sékʷetor | to be following |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | sekʷ- | to follow; to see; to say |