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Where does “surtaxe” come from?

surtaxe (French) comes from French surtaxer, from French sur-, from Old French sur-, from Latin super-, from Latin super, from Latin eks-uper, from Proto-Indo-European upéri, from Proto-Indo-European upér.

surtaxe (French): first-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. first-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “surtaxe”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsurtaxerto overtax
2Frenchsur-over, on top of; over-
3Old Frenchsur-over, on top of
4Latinsuper-super-; over, above
5Latinsuper"accusative" above, on the top of, upon;...
6Latineks-uper—
7Proto-Indo-Europeanupérialternative reconstruction of *upér
8Proto-Indo-Europeanupérabove; over
9Proto-Indo-Europeanupóunder, below
10Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃ewp-—

Words derived from “surtaxe”

  • surtax
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