Where does “lançon” come from?

lançon (French) comes from French -on, from Ancient Greek -ός, from Proto-Hellenic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European -ós — Creates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...

lançon (French): sand lance; launce

Definitions

  1. sand lance; launce

Ancestry of “lançon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-onForming diminutives of things, including some...
2Ancient Greek-όςForms agentive or patientive adjectives and nouns from the o-grade of a verbal root
3Proto-Hellenic*-os—
4Proto-Indo-European-ósCreates agent nouns from verb stems, denoting...
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