Where does “avitourist” come from?
avitourist (English) comes from English tourist, from English tour, from Old French tour, from Old French torner, from Latin tornō, from Latin tornus, from Ancient Greek τόρνος, from Proto-Indo-European torh₂no- — to rub, turn; to drill, pierce.
avitourist (English): A tourist on an avitour
Definitions
- A tourist on an avitour
Ancestry of “avitourist”, step by step
avitourist traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English tourist
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | tourist | Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for... |
| 2 | English | tour | A journey through a particular building, estate,... |
| 3 | Old French | tour | tower |
| 4 | Old French | torner | to turn; to return; to go back |
| 5 | Latin | tornō | to turn |
| 6 | Latin | tornus | A turner's wheel, lathe; A potter's wheel |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | τόρνος | A tool similar to a pair of compasses used to... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | torh₂no- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | terh₁- | to rub, turn; to drill, pierce |
via English Avi
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Avi | An avatar displayed by a user's profile on a social networking site |
| 2 | English | avatar | the incarnation of a deity, particularly Vishnu;... |
| 3 | Hindi | अवतार | an incarnation; incarnation of a deity, descent... |
| 4 | Sanskrit | अवतार | avatar: descent (especially of a deity from heaven), appearance of any deity upon earth (but more particularly the incarnations of Vishnu in ten principal forms, namely Matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narasimha, Vamana, Parashurama, Rāma, Krishna, Buddha, and Kalki) |
| 5 | Sanskrit | अव | off, away; down; this |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | Háwa | away from, off; down |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ew | away from, off; again |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰe | Postpositional intensifying particle: indeed, at any rate, in fact |