Etymology Explorer › Chinook Jargon

Where does “siwash” come from?

siwash (Chinook Jargon) comes from French sauvage, from Old French sauvage, from Vulgar Latin salvaticus, from Latin silvāticus, from Latin -aticus, from Latin -ātus, from Proto-Italic -ātos, from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos.

siwash (Chinook Jargon): man; native, local, wild

Definitions

  1. man; native, local, wild

Ancestry of “siwash”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsauvagewild, untamed; Amerindian; an Amerindian language
2Old Frenchsauvagewild; untamed
3Vulgar Latinsalvaticus—
4Latinsilvāticus—
5Latin-aticusUsed to form adjectives indicating a relation to...
6Latin-ātus—
7Proto-Italic-ātos—
8Proto-Indo-European-éh₂tos—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂tos →