Where does “excavateur” come from?
excavateur (French) comes from English excavator, from English excavate, from Latin excavātus, from Latin excavō, from Latin ex, from Latin commūnicō, from Latin commūnis, from Old Latin com(m)oinis — resin.
excavateur (French): excavator
Definitions
- excavator
Ancestry of “excavateur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | excavator | A person who excavates; A curette used to scrape... |
| 2 | English | excavate | To make a hole in (something); to hollow |
| 3 | Latin | excavātus | excavated |
| 4 | Latin | excavō | to hollow out, excavate |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | to impart, share |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | common, commonplace, ordinary, general, universal, shared, shared alike, of both sides, belonging to two or more together |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | common |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱom-moy-ni- | held in common |
| 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 |