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Where does “cyberflaneur” come from?

cyberflaneur (English) comes from English flâneur, from French flâneur, from French -eur, from Middle French -eur, from Old French -eor, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.

cyberflaneur (English): A person who idly surfs the Internet

Definitions

  1. A person who idly surfs the Internet

Ancestry of “cyberflaneur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishflâneurAlternative form of flaneur
2Frenchflâneurloafer, idler, dawdler, loiterer
3French-eurUsed to form agent nouns from verbs; API f; -ness
4Middle French-eurUsed to form agent nouns from verbs
5Old French-eorAlternative form of -or
6Latin-ator-ator, -er; second-person singular future passive...
7Latin-tor-er
8Proto-Italic-tōr—
9Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
10Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →