Where does “seater” come from?
Seater comes from English seat with the agentive suffix -er, ultimately from Latin -arius and Proto-Indo-European sed- meaning "to sit."
seater (English): A vehicle or item of furniture that has a...
Definitions
- A vehicle or item of furniture that has a...
Ancestry of “seater”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | seat | Something to be sat upon; A location or site; The... |
| 2 | Middle English | sete | — |
| 3 | Old English | sǣte | house |
| 4 | Proto-Germanic | sētiją | seat |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | sḗd- | — |