Where does “cisailles” come from?
cisailles (French) comes 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, from Proto-Indo-European keh₂id-.
cisailles (French): shears, clippers; second-person singular present...
Definitions
- shears, clippers; second-person singular present...
Ancestry of “cisailles”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | cisaille | — |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | cisac(u)la | — |
| 3 | Latin | caesacula | — |
| 4 | Latin | caesaculum | — |
| 5 | Latin | caesus | cut, hewn, felled; struck, beaten; killed |
| 6 | Latin | caedō | to cut, hew, fell |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kaidō | to cut, to hew, to fell |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | keh₂id- | — |