Where does “smelter” come from?
Smelter comes from English smelt, from Middle Dutch smelten, from Old French -er, from Latin -āre, ultimately from Proto-Italic -os.
smelter (English): A person employed to do smelting; A machine used...
Definitions
- A person employed to do smelting; A machine used...
Ancestry of “smelter”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | smelt | Any small anadromous fish of the family... |
| 2 | Dutch | smelten | to melt; to smelt |
| 3 | Dutch | punt | point; The terminal point of something; dot |
| 4 | French | point | point; full stop, period; stitch pattern |
| 5 | Middle French | poinct | point; not |
| 6 | Old French | point | a sting; a prick; moment; time; dot |
| 7 | Latin | pūnctum | point |
| 8 | Latin | punctus | pricked, punctured, pierced, having been pricked;... |
| 9 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |