Where does “père” come from?
I notice this chain has issues that prevent me from writing an accurate etymology sentence: 1. The chain loops back on itself (Latin pater appears twice; English pandemic appears four times) 2. The chain doesn't actually support "père" as an English word—père is French 3. The known meaning is listed as unknown 4. The chain structure is broken and doesn't form a coherent path Could you provide a corrected chain? A proper etymology should show a single, linear path from oldest to newest language, with each step clearly connected. For example, a corrected père entry might be: Proto-Indo-European ph₂tḗr | Latin pater | Old French pere | French père.
père (English): A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially...
Definitions
- A priest of the Roman Catholic Church, especially...
Ancestry of “père”, step by step
père traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian pere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | pere | third-person singular single-possession... |
| 2 | Hungarian | per | action, suit, lawsuit; per; divided by |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |