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Where does “surfiler” come from?

surfiler (French) comes from French -er, from Middle French -er, from Old French -ier — suffix used to form infinitives of first...

surfiler (French): to oversew

Definitions

  1. to oversew

Ancestry of “surfiler”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs
2Middle French-erForms infinitives of first-conjugation verbs;...
3Old French-iersuffix used to form infinitives of first...
Every word from Old French -ier →