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.
Labrador duck (English): "Camptorhynchus labradorius", an extinct sea duck...
Definitions
- "Camptorhynchus labradorius", an extinct sea duck...
Ancestry of “Labrador duck”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | labrador | A Labrador retriever |
| 2 | Portuguese | lavrador | farmer; husbandman; ploughman |
| 3 | Old Portuguese | lavrador | — |
| 4 | Latin | labōrātor | — |
| 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 | — |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | *Hrawpāćás | — |