Where does “put” come from?
Put derives from Old French pute, from Old French putain, from Latin puta, ultimately from Latin puer meaning boy or child.
put (English): To place something somewhere; To bring or set...
Definitions
- To place something somewhere; To bring or set...
Ancestry of “put”, step by step
put traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Old French pute
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | pute | nominative singular of putain; dirty woman; whore |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | putta | prostitute |
| 3 | Latin | puta | second-person singular present active imperative... |
| 4 | Latin | puto | I clean, cleanse; I trim, prune, lop; I arrange,... |
| 5 | Latin | putus | pure; a boy |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | puHtós | pure, clean |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | pewH- | to be clean, pure |