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Where does “noueur” come from?

noueur (French) comes from French nouer, from Middle French nouer, from Old French noer, from Vulgar Latin notare, from Latin natō, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

noueur (French): knotter; one who inserts knots into something

Definitions

  1. knotter; one who inserts knots into something

Ancestry of “noueur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchnouerknot; tie, bind, fasten; tie up
2Middle Frenchnouerto knot
3Old Frenchnoerto swim; to knot
4Vulgar Latinnotarepresent active infinitive of notō; second-person...
5Latinnatō—
6Latin-tō—
7Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
8Proto-Italic-tus—
9Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →