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Where does “porte-jarretelles” come from?

porte-jarretelles (French) comes from French jarretelle, from French -elle, from Old French -ele, from Latin -ella, from Latin -ellus, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

porte-jarretelles (French): suspender belt , garter belt

Definitions

  1. suspender belt , garter belt

Ancestry of “porte-jarretelles”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchjarretellesuspenders , garter
2French-elleForming feminine nouns, often with a diminutive...
3Old French-elediminutive suffix, forming feminine nouns
4Latin-ellainflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative...
5Latin-ellusAlternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine...
6Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
7Proto-Italic-olos—
8Proto-Italic-elos—
9Proto-Indo-European-e-lós—
10Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

Words derived from “porte-jarretelles”

  • porte-jaja
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