Where does “écorcher” come from?
écorcher (French) comes from Old French escorchier, from Latin excorticāre, from Latin cortex, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kort-ek-s.
écorcher (French): to skin; to graze
Definitions
- to skin; to graze
Ancestry of “écorcher”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | escorchier | to debark; to skin |
| 2 | Latin | excorticāre | — |
| 3 | Latin | cortex | The bark of a tree; the bark of a cork tree;... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | *(s)kort-ek-s | — |