Where does “mouchette” come from?

mouchette (French) comes from French moucher, from Latin muccare, from Latin mūcus, from Proto-Italic moukos, from Proto-Indo-European mew-k- — slimy, slippery; slip, slime.

mouchette (French): candle snuffer

Definitions

  1. candle snuffer

Ancestry of “mouchette”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchmoucherto blow nose; to put someone in their place; to...
2Latinmuccarepresent active infinitive of *muccō
3Latinmūcusmucus
4Proto-Italicmoukos—
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmew-k-slimy, slippery; slip, slime
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mew-k- →Every word from Proto-Italic moukos →Every word from Latin mūcus →