Where does “interieur” come from?
interieur (Dutch) comes from French intérieur, from Latin interior, from Latin interus, from Proto-Indo-European h₁énteros, from Proto-Indo-European -teros — Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix.
interieur (Dutch): interior
Ancestry of “interieur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | intérieur | interior; interior, inside |
| 2 | Latin | interior | inner, interior; nearer |
| 3 | Latin | interus | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁énteros | inside, within |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -teros | Contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix |