Where does “hunt saboteur” come from?
hunt saboteur (English) comes from English saboteur, from French saboteur, from French -eur, from Middle French -eur, from Old French -eor, from Latin -ator, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr.
hunt saboteur (English): A person who does not approve of hunting and...
Definitions
- A person who does not approve of hunting and...
Ancestry of “hunt saboteur”, step by step
hunt saboteur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English saboteur
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | saboteur | A person who intentionally causes the destruction... |
| 2 | French | saboteur | saboteur |
| 3 | French | -eur | Used to form agent nouns from verbs; API f; -ness |
| 4 | Middle French | -eur | Used to form agent nouns from verbs |
| 5 | Old French | -eor | Alternative form of -or |
| 6 | Latin | -ator | -ator, -er; second-person singular future passive... |
| 7 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
via English hunt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | hunt | To find or search for an animal in the wild with... |
| 2 | Middle English | hunten | to hunt |
| 3 | Cimbrian | hunt | dog |
| 4 | Middle High German | hunt | dog (Canis familiaris) |
| 5 | Old High German | hunt | dog |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | hund | dog |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | hundaz | dog |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱwn̥tós | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱwṓ | dog |