Where does “graissage” come from?
graissage (French) comes from French graisser, from French graisse, from Old French craisse, from Vulgar Latin crassia, from Latin crassus, from Old Latin cartsus, from Proto-Italic kartsus, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥t-sú-s.
graissage (French): greasing; lubrication
Ancestry of “graissage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | graisser | to grease, oil, lubricate; to smear |
| 2 | French | graisse | grease; fat; first-person singular present... |
| 3 | Old French | craisse | — |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | crassia | — |
| 5 | Latin | crassus | dense, thick, solid; fat, gross, plump;... |
| 6 | Old Latin | cartsus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | kartsus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥t-sú-s | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kert- | times; to weave, twist together; time |
| 10 | Proto-Turkic | *keŕ- | — |