Where does “jaugeage” come from?
jaugeage (French) comes from French jauger, from Middle French jauger, from Old French jaugier, from Old French jauge, from Vulgar Latin gallicus, from Latin Gallia, from Latin -ia, from Latin -ius — Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems.
jaugeage (French): gauging
Ancestry of “jaugeage”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | jauger | to sound ; to gauge by sounding |
| 2 | Middle French | jauger | — |
| 3 | Old French | jaugier | to measure a liquid using a gauging rod |
| 4 | Old French | jauge | gauging rod |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | gallicus | French; Gallic , Gaulish |
| 6 | Latin | Gallia | Gaul, modern-day France; France |
| 7 | Latin | -ia | Used to form a feminine abstract noun, usually... |
| 8 | Latin | -ius | forming adjectives from nouns; nominative neuter... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -jōs | Forms comparative adjectives |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |