Where does “tourtière du Lac-St-Jean” come from?

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

tourtière du Lac-St-Jean (French): A variant of tourtière with thicker crust, cubes of potatoes, and broth in addition to minced meat

Definitions

  1. A variant of tourtière with thicker crust, cubes of potatoes, and broth in addition to minced meat

Ancestry of “tourtière du Lac-St-Jean”, step by step

tourtière du Lac-St-Jean traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French tourtière

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchtourtièretourtière, a type of traditional French-Canadian...
2French-ièrefemale equivalent of -ier
3Latin-āriuser
4Proto-Italic*-āziosForms relational adjectives to nouns (and rarely numerals)

via French Lac-St-Jean

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FrenchLac-St-Jean
Every word from Proto-Italic *-āzios