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
Ancestry of “excavateur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | excavator | A person who excavates; A curette used to scrape... |
| 2 | English | excavate | To make a hole in ; to hollow; To remove part of ... |
| 3 | Latin | excavātus | — |
| 4 | Latin | excavō | — |
| 5 | Latin | ex | A name of the letter "X"; out of, from |
| 6 | Latin | commūnicō | — |
| 7 | Latin | commūnis | — |
| 8 | Old Latin | com(m)oinis | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | kommoinis | — |
| 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 | — |
| 15 | Old High German | kuti | — |
| 16 | Proto-West Germanic | kwidu | gum, resin |
| 17 | Proto-Germanic | kweduz | resin |