Where does “bricolage” come from?
Bricolage comes from French bricolage, composed of French bricole plus the suffix French -age, which derives from Middle French -age, ultimately from Latin -aticum and Latin -icus, tracing back to Proto-Indo-European -kos.
bricolage (English): Construction using whatever was available at the...
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Ancestry of “bricolage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | bricolage | DIY, do-it-yourself |
| 2 | French | -age | Forming nouns with the sense of "action or result... |
| 3 | Middle French | -age | forms nouns with the sense of "action or result... |
| 4 | Old French | -age | forms nouns with the sense of 'action or result... |
| 5 | Old Occitan | -atge | suffix used to form masculine nouns |
| 6 | Latin | -āticum | — |