Where does “bredouille” come from?
bredouille (French) comes from French bredouiller, from Old French bredeler, from French bretonner, from French Breton, from Old French Breton, from Latin britto, from Latin Brittania, from Ancient Greek Βρεττανία — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
bredouille (French): empty-handed; a token used to mark points in a...
Definitions
- empty-handed; a token used to mark points in a...
Ancestry of “bredouille”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | bredouiller | to stammer, to mumble |
| 2 | Old French | bredeler | — |
| 3 | French | bretonner | to talk or speak Breton; to talk or speak... |
| 4 | French | Breton | the Breton language |
| 5 | Old French | Breton | Breton |
| 6 | Latin | britto | a Briton |
| 7 | Latin | Brittania | Britain |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | Βρεττανία | the British Isles |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | -ῐ́ᾱ | {{l|en|-ia}}; "suffix forming abstract feminine... |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |