Where does “caille-lait” come from?
caille-lait (French) comes from French cailler, from Old French quailler, from Vulgar Latin coaglare, from Latin coāgulō, from Latin coāgulum, from Latin cōgō, from Latin cōn-, from Latin cum — to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,...
caille-lait (French): bedstraw (plant of the genus Galium)
Definitions
- bedstraw (plant of the genus Galium)
Ancestry of “caille-lait”, step by step
caille-lait traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French cailler
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cailler | to curdle, clot; To be very cold, to be brass... |
| 2 | Old French | quailler | Alternative form of coaillier |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | coaglare | — |
| 4 | Latin | coāgulō | to curdle; make thick, solid |
| 5 | Latin | coāgulum | tie, bond, binding agent |
| 6 | Latin | cōgō | to collect, assemble, gather together |
| 7 | Latin | cōn- | Used in compounds to indicate a being or bringing together of several objects |
| 8 | Latin | cum | with, along with; at; -fold |
| 9 | Old Latin | com | Alternative form of cum |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | kom | with, along, at |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱóm | beside, near, by, with |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 13 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 14 | German | kitt | putty certain kinds of cement used for fixing e.g. window panes |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |
| 18 | Proto-Indo-European | gʷet- | resin, gum; to say, speak |
| 19 | Proto-Indo-European | gū- | to bend; curve; arch; vault; to bow, bend, arch,... |
via French lait
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | lait | milk; An individual serving of milk; milk, semen |
| 2 | Old French | lait | milk; ugly; horrific; awful; terrible |
| 3 | Vulgar Latin | laitus | unpleasant, ugly; unpleasant, disgusting, ugly |
| 4 | Frankish | laiþ | unpleasant, obstinate, odious; unpleasant,... |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | laiþaz | loath; loathsome; disgusting; unwilling; averse;... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | leyt- | to scratch; to leave, die; to go, go forth, die |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | lēy- | to leave, let; to want, desire; to let; leave... |