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

  1. A person who makes, repairs, or alters clothes...

Ancestry of “tailor”, step by step

tailor traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English taillour

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishtaillourtailor
2Anglo-Normantaillourtailor
3Old Frenchtaillierto cut; to shape
4Latintaliōpunishment equal to the injury sustained; retaliation
5Latintālissuch
6Proto-Indo-Europeantóddemonstrative pronoun; that; it
7Proto-Indo-Europeanto-it; that; the, that
8Proto-Indo-Europeansóthis; that

via Anglo-Norman tailour

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normantailour—

Words derived from “tailor”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European só →