Where does “treatymaking” come from?
treatymaking (English) comes from English treaty, from Middle English trete, from French traité, from French traiter, from Middle French traicter, from Old French traiter, from Latin tractāre, from Latin tractō — Derives action nouns from verb roots.
treatymaking (English): The making of legal treaties
Definitions
- The making of legal treaties
Ancestry of “treatymaking”, step by step
treatymaking traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English treaty
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | treaty | A binding agreement concluded by subjects of... |
| 2 | Middle English | trete | — |
| 3 | French | traité | treatise |
| 4 | French | traiter | to treat; to take care; to process, spray, coat |
| 5 | Middle French | traicter | to treat |
| 6 | Old French | traiter | — |
| 7 | Latin | tractāre | — |
| 8 | Latin | tractō | to tug, drag or haul |
| 9 | Latin | -tō | Forms here |
| 10 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
via English making
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | making | The act of forming, causing, or constituting;... |
| 2 | English | -ing | Used to form gerunds, a type of verbal nouns,... |
| 3 | Old English | -ing | Forming nouns from verbs, indicating action,... |
| 4 | Old English | -tūn | homestead, village, town |
| 5 | Old English | tūn | enclosure, yard; place; dwelling |
| 6 | Proto-West Germanic | tūn | fence |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | tūną | fence; enclosure |
| 8 | Gaulish | dunum | fort; hill, hillfort |
| 9 | Proto-Celtic | dūnom | stronghold, rampart |