Where does “parkour” come from?
parkour (English) comes from French parkour, from French parcours, from Vulgar Latin percursus, from Latin percurrere, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille — that.
parkour (English): An athletic discipline, in which practitioners...
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- An athletic discipline, in which practitioners...
Ancestry of “parkour”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | parkour | Free running, parkour |
| 2 | French | parcours | route, course; career; a traditional roaming or... |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | percursus | |
| 4 | Latin | percurrere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 6 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 7 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 8 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 9 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |