Where does “couard” come from?

couard (French) comes from French queue, from Middle French queu, from Old French cue, from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, from Proto-Italic kaudā, from Proto-Indo-European keh₂udeh₂.

couard (French): cowardly; coward

Definitions

  1. cowardly; coward

Ancestry of “couard”, step by step

couard traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French queue

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchqueuetail; queue, line; cue
2Middle Frenchqueu—
3Old Frenchcuetail
4Vulgar Latincodatail
5LatincaudaA tail
6Proto-Italickaudātail
7Proto-Indo-Europeankeh₂udeh₂—

via Old French cuard

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchcuarda coward
2Old Frenchcouetail

Words derived from “couard”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European keh₂udeh₂ →