Where does “comfort” come from?
Comfort comes from Old French confort, derived from Old French conforter, from Latin confortare, formed from the prefix con- combined with fortis meaning strong.
comfort (English): Contentment, ease; Something that offers comfort;...
Definitions
- Contentment, ease; Something that offers comfort;...
Ancestry of “comfort”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | confort | — |
| 2 | Old French | confort | — |
| 3 | Old French | conforter | to reassure; to comfort |
| 4 | Latin | confortō | — |
| 5 | Latin | cōn- | — |
| 6 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 7 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 11 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 12 | German | kitt | — |
| 13 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 14 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 15 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 16 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 17 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
Words derived from “comfort”