Where does “collager” come from?
collager (English) comes from English collage, from French collage, from French coller, from French colle, from Vulgar Latin colla, from Latin cuculla, from Latin cucullus, from Proto-Indo-European kuH-l- — to cover, bedeck; cover.
collager (English): An artist who produces collages
Definitions
- An artist who produces collages
Ancestry of “collager”, step by step
collager traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English collage
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | collage | A picture made by sticking other pictures onto a... |
| 2 | French | collage | collage; montage |
| 3 | French | coller | to stick, to glue; se coller; To be sticky; to... |
| 4 | French | colle | glue; first-person singular present indicative of... |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | colla | nominative plural of collum; accusative plural of... |
| 6 | Latin | cuculla | Alternative form of cucullus |
| 7 | Latin | cucullus | a covering for the head, hood, cowl; a conical... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kuH-l- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)kewH- | to cover, bedeck; cover |
via English ER
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ER | The statistic "Earned Run"; Initialism of... |
| 2 | Turkish | er | early; brave; man, male |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ایر | saddle, a seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal |
| 4 | Old Anatolian Turkish | ایر | early, at a time in advance of the usual or expected event |
| 5 | Proto-Turkic | ēder | saddle |