Where does “carrot top” come from?
carrot top (English) comes from English carrot, from Middle English karette, from Translingual Caretta, from French caret, from French car, from Latin quare, from Latin rēs, from Latin vindicatio — shoe.
carrot top (English): A person with red hair; a redhead
Definitions
- A person with red hair; a redhead
Ancestry of “carrot top”, step by step
carrot top traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English carrot
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | carrot | A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root... |
| 2 | Middle English | karette | carrot |
| 3 | Translingual | Caretta | genus |
| 4 | French | caret | loggerhead turtle; hawksbill turtle; spool, reel |
| 5 | French | car | as, since, because, for; a single-decked... |
| 6 | Latin | quare | by what means, how; from what cause, on what... |
| 7 | Latin | rēs | thing, object, stuff |
| 8 | Latin | vindicatio | civil lawsuit; protection, defence; vindication;... |
| 9 | Latin | vindicō | to lay claim to as one's own (often with sibi) |
| 10 | Latin | vindex | claimant, vindicator |
| 11 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 12 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 13 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 14 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 15 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 16 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 17 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
via English top
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | top | The highest or uppermost part of something; A... |
| 2 | Middle English | top | The summit or top of something, especially a... |
| 3 | Old English | topp | top, summit (of something) |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | *topp | top, summit, crest |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | tuppaz | tuft, plait; top, summit |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | dumb- | tail, rod, staff, pole, penis; tail, rod, staff,... |