Where does “carrotwood” come from?
carrotwood (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.
carrotwood (English): An Australian soapberry tree, Cupaniopsis...
Definitions
- An Australian soapberry tree, Cupaniopsis...
Ancestry of “carrotwood”, step by step
carrotwood 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 Wood
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Wood | An English topographic surname for someone who lived in or near a wood |
| 2 | English | Frog | Alternative form of frog |
| 3 | Portuguese | froco | flock |
| 4 | Latin | floccus | tuft, wisp of wool |
| 5 | Frankish | flokko | down, wool, flock |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | *flukkô | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | plewk- | to fly, flow, run; to splash, to flap with hands |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | plew- | to fly, flow, run |