Where does “[[carburator]]/[[carburateur]]” come from?
[[carburator]]/[[carburateur]] (Dutch) comes from French carburateur, from French -ateur, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.
Ancestry of “[[carburator]]/[[carburateur]]”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | carburateur | carburetor |
| 2 | French | -ateur | -ator |
| 3 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |