Where does “bienheureux” come from?
bienheureux (French) comes from French heureux, from French heur, from Old French eür, from Latin augurium, from Latin augur, from Latvian augos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂ewg-, from Proto-Indo-European h₂weg-.
bienheureux (French): blessed, blest; happy, blissful, lucky
Definitions
- blessed, blest; happy, blissful, lucky
Ancestry of “bienheureux”, step by step
bienheureux traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French heureux
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | heureux | happy; glad; lucky, fortunate |
| 2 | French | heur | chance; fortune |
| 3 | Old French | eür | Alternative form of eur |
| 4 | Latin | augurium | augury; divination, prediction; omen, portent |
| 5 | Latin | augur | augur (priest, diviner, or soothsayer, one who foretold the future in part by interpreting the song and flight of birds) |
| 6 | Latvian | augos | locative plural form of augs; locative plural... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ewg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂weg- | to increase, to enlarge |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂ug- | — |
via French bien
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | bien | good, all right, great; good looking, nice; well |
| 2 | Middle French | bien | well |
| 3 | Old French | bien | well; indeed; possession; object of value |
| 4 | Latin | bene | well; properly, exactly; agreeably, favorably |
| 5 | Latin | bonus | good, honest, brave, noble, kind, pleasant;... |
| 6 | Old Latin | duenos | Alternative form of duonus |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | dwenos | good |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dew- | to show favour, revere; to fail, to lag, to be... |