Where does “pour” come from?
pour (French) comes from French cent, from English cent, from Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom, from Proto-Indo-European bʰolh₃yom.
pour (French): for; to
Definitions
- for; to
Ancestry of “pour”, step by step
pour traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French cent
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cent | hundred; cent |
| 2 | English | cent | A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of... |
| 3 | Middle English | cent | — |
| 4 | Old French | cent | one hundred |
| 5 | Latin | centum | a hundred; 100 |
| 6 | Latin | folium | a leaf; a petal; a sheet or leaf of paper |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | *foljom | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰolh₃yom | leaf |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰleh₃- | bloom, flower |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰel- | to sound; to speak, roar, bark; shiny, white; to... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | bʰōl- | — |
via Middle French pour
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | pour | for |
| 2 | Old French | por | for |
| 3 | Late Latin | pōr | — |
| 4 | Latin | prō | for |
| 5 | Latin | ratus | considered, having been considered; established,... |
| 6 | Latin | rēōr | to reckon, calculate |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | rēōr | to reckon, to calculate; to think, to deem, to... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂reh₁- | to think, reason; to arrange |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂er- | to fit, to fix, to put together |