Where does “rooster” come from?
Rooster comes from English roost with the agent suffix -er, from Old French -er, from Latin -āre and -ārius, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European reus-.
rooster (English): A male domestic chicken or other gallinaceous...
Definitions
- A male domestic chicken or other gallinaceous...
Ancestry of “rooster”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | roost | The place where a bird sleeps; A group of birds... |
| 2 | Middle English | roste | roost, perch; A roast; a piece of roasted meat;... |
| 3 | Old French | rost | — |
| 4 | Old French | rostir | to roast; to torture by subjecting to fire |
| 5 | Frankish | rōstjan | to roast |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | raustijaną | to roast |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *Hrews- | — |
Words derived from “rooster”