Where does “riziculteur” come from?
riziculteur (French) comes from French riziculture, from French culture, from Latin cultūra, from Latin cultus, from Latin colere, from Latin colo, from Latin quelo, from Proto-Italic kʷelō — to turn.
riziculteur (French): rice grower, rice farmer
Ancestry of “riziculteur”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | riziculture | rice growing |
| 2 | French | culture | crop; culture |
| 3 | Latin | cultūra | — |
| 4 | Latin | cultus | tilled, cultivated, having been cultivated;... |
| 5 | Latin | colere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 6 | Latin | colo | I till, cultivate the land; I inhabit; I protect,... |
| 7 | Latin | quelo | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | kʷelō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷéleti | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷel- | to turn |