Where does “quartier” come from?
Quartier comes from French quartier, derived from French quart, which developed from the Latin suffix -arius attached to quattuor, meaning four.
quartier (English): A quarter or district of an urban settlement in...
Definitions
- A quarter or district of an urban settlement in...
Ancestry of “quartier”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | quartier | quarter, district, neighbourhood |
| 2 | French | -ier | used to form the names of trees bearing a... |
| 3 | Middle French | -er | Forms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;... |
| 4 | Latin | -āre | first conjugation |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |