Where does “tourtière” come from?

tourtière (French) comes from French -ière, from Latin -ārius, from Proto-Italic *-āzios — Forms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals).

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Definitions

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Ancestry of “tourtière”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1French-ièrefemale equivalent of -ier
2Latin-āriuser
3Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

Words derived from “tourtière”

Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios →Every word from Latin -ārius →Every word from French -ière →