Where does “carport” come from?
Carport is a blend of English car and port, with car deriving from Latin carrus through Gaulish karros and Proto-Celtic karros, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European per-, while port comes from Latin porta, from Proto-Indo-European gers-.
carport (English): A roofed structure for automobile storage,...
Definitions
- A roofed structure for automobile storage,...
Ancestry of “carport”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | Port | — |
| 2 | English | portfolio | A case for carrying papers, drawings,... |
| 3 | Italian | portafoglio | wallet, billfold; portfolio |
| 4 | Italian | foglio | sheet |
| 5 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |