Where does “charme” come from?

charme (Champenois) comes from Latin carpinus, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er-.

charme (Champenois): hornbeam

Definitions

  1. hornbeam

Ancestry of “charme”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatincarpinusHornbeam; European hornbeam; a variety of...
2Proto-Indo-European*kh₂er-
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er-