Where does “Filles du Roy” come from?
Filles du Roy (English) comes from Middle French Filles du Roy, from Middle French fille, from Old French fille, from Latin fīlia, from Latin fīlius, from Old Latin fīlios, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁y-li-os, from Proto-Indo-European dʰeh₁(y)- — to suckle, nurse.
Filles du Roy (English): A non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders
Definitions
- A non-religious program composed of orphaned girls of France shipped to New France to populate French North America with Frenchmen, by providing wives to the bachelor colonial French traders
Ancestry of “Filles du Roy”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | Filles du Roy | Filles du Roy |
| 2 | Middle French | fille | daughter; girl |
| 3 | Old French | fille | daughter; girl |
| 4 | Latin | fīlia | daughter |
| 5 | Latin | fīlius | a son |
| 6 | Old Latin | fīlios | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁y-li-os | sucker |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁(y)- | to suckle, nurse |