Where does “recourir” come from?
recourir (French) comes from French courir, from Latin percurrere, from Latin per, from Latin Ad, from Latin illic, from Latin ille, from Latin olle, from Proto-Italic *olnos — that.
recourir (French): to run again, to race again
Definitions
- to run again, to race again
Ancestry of “recourir”, step by step
recourir traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French courir
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | courir | to run; to go |
| 2 | Latin | percurrere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 3 | Latin | per | through, by means of; throughout, during |
| 4 | Latin | Ad | toward, to |
| 5 | Latin | illic | he, she, it, yonder, that, overthere; in that... |
| 6 | Latin | ille | that; those; "; demonstrative pronoun "; that... |
| 7 | Latin | olle | Archaic form of ille |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | *olnos | that |
via Latin recurrere
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | recurrere | third-person plural perfect active indicative of... |
| 2 | Latin | recurro | I run or hasten back; I return, revert, recur |
| 3 | Latin | re- | back, backwards; again; prefix added to various... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wret- | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | wert- | to turn, to rotate |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | wer- | to burn; to cover, heed, notice; squirrel |