Where does “vier” come from?
I need to work through this chain carefully, but I notice there's a problem: the chain provided doesn't actually support "vie" or "vier" in English.
The chain shows:
- English vie
- Chinese 兒
- Old French -er
- Latin -are (repeated)
- Latin -arius
- Latin -us
- Proto-Italic -os
This appears to be a chain of suffixes (-er, -are, -arius, -us, -os) rather than a coherent etymological path for a verb meaning "to vie." Additionally, Chinese 兒 (a diminutive suffix meaning "child") doesn't logically connect to Old French -er or the Latin verbal/nominal suffixes shown.
The chain as presented seems corrupted or incorrectly transcribed. I cannot write an accurate one-sentence summary that "states only what the chain supports" because this chain doesn't support
vier (English): One who vies for something
Definitions
- One who vies for something
Ancestry of “vier”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | English | -er | A person or thing that does an action indicated... |
| 2 | Middle English | -er | agentive suffix; agent noun suffix |
| 3 | Old French | -er | Alternative form of -ier, verbal suffix;... |
| 4 | Latin | -āre | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -āō | Forms primarily denominative verbs |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -eh₂yéti | Creates iterative/ frequentative/ intensive... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -yéti | Creates intransitive, often deponent,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | yé- | — |
| 9 | Chichewa | iye | he, she |