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Where does “cisailler” come from?

cisailler (French) comes from French cisailles, from Old French cisaille, from Vulgar Latin cisac(u)la, from Latin caesacula, from Latin caesaculum, from Latin caesus, from Latin caedō, from Proto-Italic kaidō.

cisailler (French): to clip, shear

Definitions

  1. to clip, shear

Ancestry of “cisailler”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchcisaillesshears, clippers; second-person singular present...
2Old Frenchcisaille—
3Vulgar Latincisac(u)la—
4Latincaesacula—
5Latincaesaculum—
6Latincaesuscut, hewn, felled; struck, beaten; killed
7Latincaedō—
8Proto-Italickaidōto cut, to hew, to fell
9Proto-Indo-Europeankeh₂id-—

Words derived from “cisailler”

  • scissel
  • cizallar
  • cizalla
  • cisaillement
  • cisailles
  • cisailler
Every word from Proto-Indo-European keh₂id- →