Where does “étier” come from?
étier (French) comes from Old French estier, from Latin aestuārium, from Latin -ārium, from Latin -um, from Proto-Italic *-om, from Proto-Indo-European *-oHom.
étier (French): channel for salt marshes
Ancestry of “étier”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | estier | channel for salt marshes |
| 2 | Latin | aestuārium | — |
| 3 | Latin | -ārium | — |
| 4 | Latin | -um | nominative neuter singular of -us; accusative... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *-om | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *-oHom | — |