Where does “Travelgate” come from?

Travelgate (English) comes from English travel, from Middle English travelen, from Middle Scots travailen, from Old French travailler, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis, from Latin -ium — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.

Travelgate (English): The White House travel office controversy of 1993

Definitions

  1. The White House travel office controversy of 1993

Ancestry of “Travelgate”, step by step

Travelgate traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English travel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtravelTo be on a journey, often for pleasure or...
2Middle Englishtravelento make a laborious journey, travel
3Middle Scotstravailento toil, work, travel
4Old FrenchtravaillerAlternative form of traveillier; to suffer; to...
5Vulgar Latintripaliareto work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō
6Latintripaliumtorture instrument; a torture instrument
7Latintripālisthat has, or is prop up by, three stake or pale
8Latin-iumSuffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes...
9Latin-iusforming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter...
10Proto-Italic-jōsForms comparative adjectives
11Proto-Indo-European-yósCreates adjectives from noun or verb stems

via English gate

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishgateA doorlike structure outside a house; Doorway,...
2Middle EnglishgateAn entryway or entrance to a settlement or...
3Old Englishġeatgate; a gate, door
4Old Frenchgautforest, woods, woodland
5Proto-West Germanicwalþuforest
6Proto-Germanicwalþuzforest
7Proto-Indo-Europeanwel-to see
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -yós