Where does “autre” come from?
autre (French) comes from Middle French aultre, from Old French autre, from Old French vie, from Old French viḍe, from Latin vitam, from Latin vīta, from Latin vīvō, from Proto-Italic gʷīwō — to live.
autre (French): other; another
Definitions
- other; another
Ancestry of “autre”, step by step
autre traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French aultre
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | aultre | other; another; someone else; another person |
| 2 | Old French | autre | Alternative form of altre; other |
| 3 | Old French | vie | life |
| 4 | Old French | viḍe | — |
| 5 | Latin | vitam | accusative singular of vīta |
| 6 | Latin | vīta | life |
| 7 | Latin | vīvō | to live |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | gʷīwō | live, be alive |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷíh₃weti | to live, to be alive |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷih₃wós | alive, living |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷeih₃w- | to live |
via Italian altro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | altro | other, another, more, further, else; previous,... |
| 2 | Spanish | otro | other, another; "Not again!" or "What, again?";... |
| 3 | Latin | vertere | inflection of vertō: ## third-person plural... |
| 4 | Latin | verto | I turn, revolve; I turn around; I reverse |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | wertō | to turn |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |