Where does “dégât” come from?
dégât (French) comes from Old French deguaster, from Latin devastare, from Latin vastāre, from Proto-Indo-European weh₂st- — empty, wasted; empty; wasted.
dégât (French): damage
Ancestry of “dégât”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old French | deguaster | — |
| 2 | Latin | devastare | present active infinitive of dēvāstō;... |
| 3 | Latin | vastāre | — |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | weh₂st- | empty, wasted; empty; wasted |