Where does “Montagnais” come from?
Montagnais comes from French montagnais, from Middle French montaigne meaning mountain, derived from Latin mons mountain with the suffix -ensis, ultimately from Latin mons.
Montagnais (English): A subdivision of the Innu people of Canada
Definitions
- A subdivision of the Innu people of Canada
Ancestry of “Montagnais”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | montagnais | Montagnais language |
| 2 | French | -ais | The first-person and second-person singular... |
| 3 | Old French | -eis | used to form nationalities; used to form names of... |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | -iscus | -ish |
| 5 | Latin | -ensis | Of or from |
| 6 | Latin | arvum | field; farm land |
| 7 | Latin | colō | to cultivate the land, till, tend, take care of a field or garden |
| 8 | Latin | quelō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | to inhabit |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |