Where does “Labrador duck” come from?
Labrador duck (English) comes from English labrador, from Portuguese lavrador, from Old Portuguese lavrador, from Latin labōrātor, from French laboratoire, from Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin labotatorius, from Latin laborator — fox.
Labrador duck (English): "Camptorhynchus labradorius", an extinct sea duck...
Definitions
- "Camptorhynchus labradorius", an extinct sea duck...
Ancestry of “Labrador duck”, step by step
Labrador duck traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English labrador
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | labrador | A Labrador retriever |
| 2 | Portuguese | lavrador | farmer; husbandman; ploughman |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | lavrador | — |
| 4 | Latin | labōrātor | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 5 | French | laboratoire | laboratory |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | laboratorium | laboratory |
| 7 | Latin | labotatorius | laborable |
| 8 | Latin | laborator | plowman, tiller of the soil |
| 9 | Latin | laboratus | produced, having been produced |
| 10 | Latin | laboro | I toil, labor; I endeavor, strive; I suffer, am... |
| 11 | Latin | labor | work; labour, toil; hardship, trouble, fatigue,... |
| 12 | Old Latin | labos | — |
| 13 | Romanian | labă | palm; paw |
| 14 | Hungarian | láb | leg; foot; support, stand |
| 15 | Proto-Uralic | luwe | bone |
| 16 | Proto-Iranian | *Hrawpācáh | fox |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | fox |
via English Duck
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Duck | To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something |
| 2 | Dutch | doek | cloth, linen, fabric; a piece of cloth; screen,... |
| 3 | Middle Dutch | doec | cloth |
| 4 | Old Dutch | duok | — |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | dōk | cloth, rag |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | dōkaz | cloth, rag |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | dwōg- | — |