Where does “banque” come from?

banque (French) comes from Italian banco, from Old High German bank, from Proto-West Germanic banki, from Proto-Germanic bankiz, from Proto-Indo-European bʰeg- — to break.

banque (French): bank

Definitions

  1. bank

Ancestry of “banque”, step by step

banque traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian banco

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italianbancodesk; counter; bench, table
2Old High Germanbankbench
3Proto-West Germanicbankibench
4Proto-Germanicbankiza raised surface; bulge; hillock; slope; bench
5Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰeg-to break

via Middle French banque

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchbanquebank
2Italianbancabank; third-person singular present indicative of...
3Lombardicbankbench, counter

Words derived from “banque”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European bʰeg- →Every word from Proto-Germanic bankiz →Every word from Proto-West Germanic banki →