Where does “nontraveler” come from?
nontraveler (English) comes from English traveler, from English travel, from Middle English travelen, from Middle Scots travailen, from Old French travailler, from Vulgar Latin tripaliare, from Latin tripalium, from Latin tripālis — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
nontraveler (English): One who is not a traveler
Definitions
- One who is not a traveler
Ancestry of “nontraveler”, step by step
nontraveler traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English traveler
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | traveler | US standard spelling of traveller |
| 2 | English | travel | To be on a journey, often for pleasure or... |
| 3 | Middle English | travelen | to make a laborious journey, travel |
| 4 | Middle Scots | travailen | to toil, work, travel |
| 5 | Old French | travailler | Alternative form of traveillier; to suffer; to... |
| 6 | Vulgar Latin | tripaliare | to work; present active infinitive of *tripaliō |
| 7 | Latin | tripalium | torture instrument; a torture instrument |
| 8 | Latin | tripālis | that has, or is prop up by, three stake or pale |
| 9 | Latin | -ium | Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes... |
| 10 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |