Where does “tailor” come from?
Tailor comes from French tailleur, from French tailler meaning to cut, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European só.
tailor (English): A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes...
Definitions
- A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes...
Ancestry of “tailor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | taillour | — |
| 2 | Anglo-Norman | taillour | tailor |
| 3 | Old French | taillier | to cut; to shape |
| 4 | Latin | taliō | — |
| 5 | Latin | tālis | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | tód | demonstrative pronoun; that; it |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | to- | it; that; the, that |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | só | this; that |
Words derived from “tailor”