Where does “martin-pêcheur” come from?

martin-pêcheur (French) comes from French pêcheur, from Middle French Pescheur, from Old French pescheor, from Latin piscātor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

martin-pêcheur (French): kingfisher

Definitions

  1. kingfisher

Ancestry of “martin-pêcheur”, step by step

martin-pêcheur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French pêcheur

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchpêcheurfisher
2Middle FrenchPescheurfisherman
3Old Frenchpescheorfisherman
4Latinpiscātorfisher, fisherman
5Latin-tor-er
6Proto-Italic-tōrForms agent nouns to verb stems
7Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
8Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

via French Martin

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchMartinbird of either the starling family, or of the kingfisher family
2LatinMartīnus—
3Latin-īnusof or pertaining to; -ine
4Proto-Italic-īnosof/belonging to
5Proto-Indo-European-iHnosCreates adjectives of materials
6Proto-Indo-European-no-adjectival suffix
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s →Every word from Latin -tor →Every word from Latin piscātor →